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EDI Mission

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) was set up in 1983 and is sponsored by major Indian banks and financial institutions. It is located on a 23 acre campus provided by the Gujarat government. EDI aims to promote entrepreneurship through training, research, and assisting potential entrepreneurs. It focuses on areas that are socially relevant and that it has the capability to achieve, such as creating self-employment opportunities, training entrepreneurs, and promoting micro-enterprises in rural areas. The National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board was established in 1982 by the Government of India to promote knowledge-driven and technology-based enterprises. It aims to convert job-seekers into job-

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EDI Mission

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) was set up in 1983 and is sponsored by major Indian banks and financial institutions. It is located on a 23 acre campus provided by the Gujarat government. EDI aims to promote entrepreneurship through training, research, and assisting potential entrepreneurs. It focuses on areas that are socially relevant and that it has the capability to achieve, such as creating self-employment opportunities, training entrepreneurs, and promoting micro-enterprises in rural areas. The National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board was established in 1982 by the Government of India to promote knowledge-driven and technology-based enterprises. It aims to convert job-seekers into job-

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EDI

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), an autonomous and not-for-profit


Institute, set up in 1983, is sponsored by apex financial institutions - the IDBI Bank Ltd., IFCI Ltd.,
ICICI Bank Ltd. and State Bank of India (SBI). The Government of Gujarat pledged twenty-three acres
of land on which stands the majestic and sprawling EDI campus.

EDI Mission

An acknowledged national resource institution, EDI is committed to entrepreneurship


education, training and research. The institute strives to provide innovative training
techniques, competent faculty support, consultancy and quality teaching & training material.
EDI has been spearheading entrepreneurship movement throughout the nation with a belief
that entrepreneurs need not necessarily be born, but can be developed through well-conceived
and well-directed activities.

In consonance with this belief, EDI aims at :

 creating a multiplier effect on opportunities for self-employment,


 augmenting the supply of competent entrepreneurs through training,.
 augmenting the supply of entrepreneur trainer-motivators,
 participating in institution building efforts,
 inculcating the spirit of 'Entrepreneurship' in youth,
 promoting micro enterprises at rural level,
 developing and disseminating new knowledge and insights in entrepreneurial theory
and practice through research,
 facilitating corporate excellence through creating intrapreneurs (entrepreneurial
managers),
 improving managerial capabilities of small scale industries,
 sensitising the support system to facilitate potential and existing entrepreneurs
establish and manage their enterprises,
 collaborating with similar organisations in India and other developing countries to
accomplish the above objectives.

The institute's basic strategy to realise its mission has been to concentrate on some broad
areas to achieve its objectives. The areas so selected have to satisfy the twin criteria of social
relevance and the institute's capability.
National science and technology entrepreneurship
development board
The National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board
(NSTEDB), established in 1982 by the Government of India under the aegis of
Department of Science & Technology, is an institutional mechanism to help promote
knowledge driven and technology intensive enterprises. The Board, having
representations from socio-economic and scientific Ministries/Departments, aims to
convert "job-seekers" into "job-generators" through Science & Technology (S&T)
interventions.
Objectives:
 To promote and develop high-end entrepreneurship for S&T manpower as well as
self-employment by utilising S&T infrastructure and by using S&T methods.
 To facilitate and conduct various informational services relating to promotion of
entrepreneurship.

 To network agencies of the support system, academic institutions and Research &
Development (R&D) organisations to foster entrepreneurship and self-employing
using S&T with special focus on backward areas as well.

 To promote knowledge based and innovation driven enterprises.


 To facilitate generation of entrepreneurship and self-employment opportunities for
S & T persons.
 To facilitate the information dissemination.
 To network with various Central & State Government agencies for S&T based
entrepreneurship development. 
 To act as a policy advisory body to the Government agencies for S&T based
entrepreneurship development.
 To generate employment through technical skill development using S & T
infrastructure.

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