The Centre aims to bring about diversity, equity and inclusion to bear upon entrepreneurship development work in India; curate resources of DEI experiences in the entrepreneurship space and share such experiences with interested stakeholders and develop policy proposals, ideas for action and such other instruments to enhance DEI in the Indian entrepreneurship space. Additionally, the Centre will also focus on undertaking policy advocacy to support state and central government through action-oriented research.
To curate/generate the resources of DEI experiences in the entrepreneurship space and to share such experiences with interested stakeholders.
To bring diversity, equity and inclusion to bear upon entrepreneurship development work in India.
To develop policy proposals, ideas for action and such other instruments to enhance DEI in the Indian entrepreneurship space.
Provide policy advocacy to support state and central government through action-oriented research.
The Centre will hold entrepreneurship development/promotion programmes exclusively for the regions/groups which are under-represented – North East, hilly areas, Himalayan region, tribal areas, women, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, transgenders and the disabled.
The Centre will monitor the diversity index of participation in its ongoing, mixed entrepreneurship programmes and formulate guidelines, to increase diversity. The Centre will also assess equity and inclusion characterising such mixed programmes and devise ways to optimize equity and inclusion.
There are disadvantaged groups of entrepreneurs – women, scheduled caste, scheduled tribes, disableds and minorities – who sometimes, experience unfair treatment from regulatory/promotional agencies and other stakeholders. How does one prevent such treatment and mitigate its consequences? What are the education/remedial measures required in this regard. EDII will undertake specific post-EDP work to judge the incidence of inequity and the way to promote equity.
The ecosystem consists of officials from regulatory and promotional agencies, credit institutions, technical support agencies, training organisations. The Institute, after building its track – record, will offer a DEI programme to the ecosystem members.
There are policies pertaining to priority groups and regions, which give them an advantage in terms of subsidies for new/expansion projects, interest rates, procurement by government organisations, credit, etc. The Institute will take an across-the-scheme examination of policies in order to suggest a more effective policy set addressing DEI priorities.
Startups are dependent on contemporary and/or foreign forms of funding. The funds as also the promoters of some startups are conscious of the need for building sufficient DEI into startups. The Centre shall undertake study among selected startups to assess their DEI level and recommend actions for improvement.
The work under the aegis of this Centre, will generate knowledge, understanding and insights into DEI level in entrepreneurship development space in India. Based on this, the Institute intends to publish some papers mainly for the benefit of entrepreneurs, ecosystem, startups, funding organisations and policy makers.
