The conventional thinking, that “entrepreneurs are born”, and not made, has undergone a major change since mid-1970’s, as Entrepreneurship Development Models began to get shape. However, the Indian experience over the last three decades demonstrate, a bandwagon effect in the area of entrepreneurship development. Entrepreneurship Development has increasingly became a ‘fashion’ of public intervention. Many promotional agencies and government departments, however, are ignorant of the relevance of Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, and therefore, precious funds have often been wasted in irrelevant programs with doubtful impact.

The Institute’s services in this area form two categories: a) modeling; b) implementation of programmes. The Institute helps development of a programme relevant to a particular context. While this service is available, both to promotional agencies as also EDP implementing agencies, the Institute also implements programs of its own.