In 2020, EDII instituted Dr. V. G. Patel National Memorial Award for Entrepreneurship Trainer/Educator/Mentor to honour the late legendary, Dr. V. G. Patel who emphasized on the significance of instituting a cadre of entrepreneur trainer-motivators to sustain the entrepreneurship movement.

EDII lost its founder Padma Shri Dr. V.G. Patel on April 4, 2019. To commemorate Dr. Patel’s great work in the field of entrepreneurship, the Institute started the annual lecture series in 2019. Recognised by the entrepreneurship fraternity as the ‘Pioneer of Entrepreneurship Movement,’ Dr. V.G. Patel devoted his life to propagate entrepreneurship within India and globally.

EDII and Rajasthan Patrika have entered into a collaboration to jointly organize Entrepreneurship Development Programmes for emerging women entrepreneurs. Against the backdrop that entrepreneurship is the need-of-the-hour, especially among the women community, the two organizations have joined hands to institute meaningful, outcome-based programmes and bring the results and interventions before the society at large to earn a winning response for the development tool of entrepreneurship.

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EDII and Taylor and Francis have collaborated to bring out research studies, books and reports on Entrepreneurship.

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The Policy Brief Series is a thoughtful initiative in the direction of creating awareness among policymakers, institutions, entrepreneurs, and other esteemed audiences about major policy interventions. It aims to create a knowledge repository.

Till now, EDII has brought out 10 GEM Report. The GEM India Report is an outcome of collective efforts of GEM India

EDII set up the Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CREED) on its campus,

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) has been organizing ‘Biennial Conferences on Entrepreneurship’ since 1994.