Advances on Frontiers of Entrepreneurship : From Research to Results

Contents: Preface. I. Emerging opportunities in entrepreneurship: 1. Self-employment promotion through Community Polytechnic Scheme. 2. The impact of network technologies on accelerating access to global entrepreneurship education. 3. Integration of agri-enterprises for rural development. 4. The impact of global entrepreneurship on accelerating creative solutions of young people education to tackle poverty: the Millennium development goals to multifarious challenges in entrepreneurial arena. 5. Digital entrepreneurship a vision of our future. 6. Role and opportunities of free open source software in entrepreneurship. 7. Sources of entrepreneurial opportunities. II. Case studies in entrepreneurship: 8. State of art of entrepreneurship development in Asia Pacific countries. 9. Launching an ITES based social entrepreneurial venture in Pilani, Rajasthan: the role of academicians. 10. Hamara Dhandha @ NITIE: an innovative pedagogy for business education where medium of instruction is practice. 11. Ecopreneurship great need of hour. 12. Developing agri preneuers to improve agriculture economy. 13. Recycling entrepreneurial challenge to wisdom. III. Dynamics of entrepreneurship: 14. Cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit among engineering students. 15. Entrepreneurship development promotional endeavours in Punjab. 16. Entrepreneurship-concept success factors competencies skills, attitudes and traits. 17. Social entrepreneur in TVE and T and public private Community partnership model. 18. Motivation to innovate: a theoretical probe into entrepreneurs motivation. 19. Open source technology, venture capital and IT technopreneurs: an Indian perspective. 20. Future of incubated entrepreneurship for sustainable development in India. 21. Developing entrepreneurial abilities through training an integrated interdisciplinary approach. 22. Zen mind management for success. 23. Role of entrepreneurship for better self employment: an innovative approach.

"Entrepreneurship if developed earnestly and concrete steps taken in this regard in a systematic way can prove to be a panacea for alleviating poverty and boosting economic growth of the country. Deliberations on economic, technical, social,  and political forum are being held on promotion of self employment and entrepreneurship as alternative options to wage employment. 15th National Conference on advances on Frontier of Entrepreneurship from research to Result was organized by EDIC department of NITTR Chandigarh from 17 19 November, 2008. This conference provided a common platform to researchers, academicians, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to deliberate on the issues, opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship. The present book is an attempt in summarizing the research work through edited compilation of papers presented during the conference."