The society at large works with and enables the poor to improve their lives through enhanced capabilities and initiatives;

Development is ensured to be sustainable; and

Technology and job quality work together, for common good.

Research : Research that focuses our development priorities and concerns has an instrumental role in the modern world. Enterprises and entrepreneurial capabilities are the engines of growth today. How entrepreneurs are born, and behave, how the enterprises make the economy what it is, and how public policy set the tone and tenor of business growth, are crucial aspects of the research agenda of the Institute.

             In tune with this agenda, the Institute has undertaken several studies on the political economy of enterprise development, public policy, business, demography and several functional areas of industrial, economic and social development. These include  studies of the Institute’s own priority as well as areas of concern by sponsors.  

Policy Interventions : Public Policy is generally considered as a data by most organisations. Therefore, such organisations do not consider it feasible to attempt a change in the existing order  of things or at best, it is considered as the duty of political parties and social movements to attempt any such change.

            The policy process, however, is complex. There are various influences, casual or scientifically articulated, which influence policy making to a significant extent. ISED believes in the role and relevance of such scientific articulation, and contributes to the policy process.

            The strategy instruments for such scientific articulation are varied. This functional role has been performed by all the Activity Centers of the Institute. For example, the ISED Small Enterprise Observatory, brings to the lime light, several of the hitherto least attended or neglected areas in enterprise development and offers alternative models. The Centre for Social Development strives to articulate an entrepreneurial approach to several social sectors and sub sectors. The Centre for Policy Studies directly deals with the policy process through methods of direct communication, intervention through official committees and submission of alternatives or supplements with policy making bodies. In this role, the Institute works with, the Planning Commission, the Reserve Bank of India, the UN System etc.

the outcomes of changing policies;

predictions on the shape of things to come;

suggestions on what to do; and

extension of direct professional services on a day to day basis.