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Conducted Entrepreneurship Awareness Program in Collaboration with EDII
Report Submitted by: Prof. Veena Shastry M, Coordinator for Entrepreneurship Club, Department of Management studies.
Entrepreneurship education has been accepted in the world over as a potential area to inculcate entrepreneurial mindset, impart skills to successors of existing family-owned businesses, boost self-employment among youths, and thus promote economic development.
India is emerging as an empowering platform for start-up’s. Our Management departments in specific are preparing grounds for the budding management students to experiment their entrepreneurial skills.
Despite a largely encouraging atmosphere, the number of students focusing on nurturing entrepreneurs is very limited. To bridge this gap, SaIT in collaboration with EDII Ahmedabad is conducted 3 days Program as Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp for all the young talents who inspired to beentrepreneurs.
Day 1:
Session 1-Inauguration.Introduction to Program and welcome speech by HOD Dr.Subrahmanyam.
The session was for Engineering and Management students.
Session 2-Introduction to Entrepreneurship
‘Entrepreneurship is the professional application of knowledge, skills and competencies and/or of monetizing a new idea, by an individual or a set of people by launching an enterprise de novo or diversifying from an existing one, thus students were trained on pursue growth while generating wealth, employment and social good’.
Session 3 - Entrepreneurial competencies
They were also created awareness about opportunities created by today’s global knowledge economy coupled with the ‘unshackling of indigenous enterprise’, have contributed to making India a ‘fertile ground’ for Entrepreneurship
Session 4 - JETT & SRQ
Practical activities were conducted to make them to understand the concepts in Entrepreneurship.
Day 2:Industrial visit & Interaction with Industrial People.
The students got to know the uniqueness in the field of soaps and detergent. They perceived the technological influence which is adapted to manufacture in making the better soaps and useful for the customers. Largest manufacturer of sandal wood in the world and its major exporters in the wood of the world. Packing and designing concept was new learning process for the students.
Day 3: Two resource persons addressed the students regarding the entrepreneurship.
Session 1
Entrepreneurial motivation
Session 2
Mr. Abdul Raoof, CEO Athikas Foods Pvt ltd. Bangalore,
He shared his experience of becoming entrepreneur and shared the opinion about working under employer before becoming entrepreneur. The resource person shared the experience of organizing all factors of production, Land, Labor, capital machineries.
Session 3
Prof. Sunil Raj,
The resource person explained about:
- The defining act of entrepreneurshipneed to create an environment where people are encouraged to generate ideas, then, the challenge becomes how to “screen” ideas to find the best opportunities.Natural Resources
- Existing/ Expected Enterprises
- Market-Extension/ Modification of Present Work Content, Creative Effort
Session 4 - Valedictory function
Valedictory talk was given by HOD Dr. Subrahmanyam
Students shared their opinion about the camp and they were happy that college has given an opportunity and conducted the Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp.
Students got the certificate from EDII
Co Coordinators of the program
Pavithra S
Asha K C
Naveen kumar M
Spoorthi A R
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