First Of Its Kind Initiatives

FIRST OF ITS KIND
  • Conceptualized Entrepreneurship Development Programme Model, popularly known today as EDII-EDP model. Today, the model is being implemented by ED organizations and institutes across India and outside.
  • Helped set up twelve state level Entrepreneurship Development Institutions in the country to strengthen entrepreneurship.
  • Launched the first ever Open Learning Programme in Entrepreneurship so that working executives could learn the technicalities of setting up business, at their own pace and time.
  • Pioneered AICTE approved two-year full-time Post Graduate Programme in Entrepreneurship and in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Venture Development.
  • Pioneered creation of research and intellectual capital in Entrepreneurship with the launch of 4-year, AICTE approved Fellow Programme in Entrepreneurship (Doctoral Level).
  • Leads the world’s largest study in Entrepreneurship, ‘Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’, India chapter, since 2012.
  • Launched the first ever International Biennial Conference in Entrepreneurship
  • Editor of the exclusive ‘Journal of Entrepreneurship’, published by the Sage Publishers
  • Trains between 80,000 to 1,00,000 potential entrepreneurs and close to 15,500 MSMEs, annually, PAN India.
  • Formulates National Policies for various Central and State Government Ministries and Departments
  • Created nationwide income and ownership opportunities by associating with more than 500 NGOs across the country, that could reach the grassroots to ensure results.
  • Promoted inclusive growth by designing and implementing a special programme for minorities and the marginalized sections of society.
  • Undertook research to probe the special needs of the differently abled and evolved a model for making the differently abled, entrepreneurial. With the support of Govt. of Gujarat, set up the Centre for Differently Abled, on campus.              
  • Designed and implemented a special training module to rejuvenate the handicraft and handloom legacy of India.
  • Conducted the first ever entrepreneurship oriented Summer Camp for youths and children, thus ‘catching them young’ and empowering them with ‘winning’ skills.
  • Introduced industrial and artisanal cluster development model (including the cluster development executives’ concept), leading to formulation of cluster development scheme.
  • Pioneered the study of Business Development Services market in India, thus giving recognition to BDS market development approach in the country.
  • Piloted the replicable model of creating Micro Business Counsellors to ensure survival and growth of existing enterprises.
  • Developed a unique poverty eradication model, Kudumbashri, for the Government of Kerala
  • Offers the largest ever village entrepreneurship programme in the country, the
  • Startup Village Entrepreneurship Programme.
  • For the first time ever, designed and implemented a unique programme for 29 Basawis (temple maids) of Andhra Pradesh. It was based on the Rural Entrepreneurship Development Model, an archetypal of EDII.
  • Collaborated with major corporate houses of the country to implement their Social Entrepreneurship & CSR activities, with measurable impact, across the country.
  • Associated with all major Central Government Ministries and Departments as their nodal agency/implementation partner/knowledge partner.
  • Functions as Nodal Institute for Promoting Startups under the aegis of the Government of Gujarat to strengthen entrepreneurship in the state.
  • Hosts Technology Business Incubation Centre, Centre for Advancing and Launching Enterprises (CrAdLE), catalysed and supported by NSTEDB, DST, Govt. of India, for incubation support primarily in the areas of food / agri business, renewable energy and healthcare.
  • Associated with esteemed institutions and centres of excellence, PAN India, to develop cadres of teachers of higher education, as resource persons, to ensure strengthening of entrepreneurship in education.
  • Institutionalized entrepreneurship at University level across various states and institutions of eminence.
  • Developed and revised curriculum on entrepreneurship for national regulatory bodies and state boards.
  • Designed and offered an entrepreneurship orientation programme for civil servants.
  • Introduced the concept of urban poverty alleviation and launched a special programme to generate entrepreneurial opportunities in urban areas.
  • Instituted the first ever project to sensitize / train Business Management Organizations to act as proactive facilitators of business.
  • Designed and implemented a unique crises resilience model for reviving the earthquake struck Kuchchh and adjoining regions.
  • Curated region-based skill and entrepreneurship development model to strengthen entrepreneurship among the youths, in particular, in the lesser developed regions of Kashmir, North East India and the like.
  • Designed and launched innovative, outcome-based entrepreneurship development models to strengthen science and technology entrepreneurship in the country
  • Set up Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDCs) in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam, Uzbekistan and Rwanda.
  • Organizes International Capacity Building Programmes annually, to groom professionals from over 130 developing countries in various areas of entrepreneurship and investment promotion.
  • Set up the Inter-Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Promotion under the aegis of UNIDO for strengthening entrepreneurial capacities of selected countries in Asia, Africa and Arab regions.
  • Facilitated setting up of Arab Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training (ARCEIT), in Manama, Bahrain.
  • Facilitated setting up of Advisory Centre for Industrial Development (CAD), in Manama, Bahrain.
  • Implemented mega development projects with international organizations, such as; Human Resource Development Fund, Ministry of HRD, Malaysia, World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, UNIDO, ILO, FNSt, British Council, Ford Foundation, European Union, ASEAN Secretariat, SDC etc.