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Dr.K.C.Chakrabarthy being received by Prof.K.N.Kabra - Chairman, ISED

Dr. P.M. Mathew - Director, ISED

Prof. Kamal Narayan Kabra - Chairman, ISED

Dr.B. Yerram Raju - Senior Fellow , ISED

MSMER 2010 being released..

Dr. K.C. Chakrabarthy - Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Mr. T.O. Sooraj IAS - Director of Industries and Commerce

Chief Guest being presented with a memento...

Mr. P.N. Balasubramanian - SMEK

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Ms. Usha Thoratt being received by Prof.K.N.Kabra - Chairman, ISED

Dr. P.M.Mathew - Director, ISED

Dr. B.Yerram Raju - Senior Fellow, ISED

Prof. Kamal Narayan Kabra - Chairman, ISED

Ms. Usha Thoratt - Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Mr. Samuel Joseph - General Manager, Export Import Bank of India

Ms. Zarina Shaikh - Regional Manager, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India

Mr.DE Ramakrishnan - Member , Prime Minister's Task Force On MSME

Chief Guest being presented with a memento..

Mr.C.S.Murthy - Former Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India

Mr.Aravind Burj - President, Karnataka State Small Industries Association

Mr.K.Vijayachandran - Former Chairman, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation

Mr. Badarudeen T.H - Secretary, Kerala State Small Scale Industries Association(KSSIA)

Mr.Gnanasambandan - Vice President, Tamil Nadu Small and Medium Industries Association

Mr..P.Rudran, Managing Director, ISARC - Bombay

Mr.A. Vikraman - Former Chief General Manager, SIDBI

Mr. Venugopal.C.Govind - Financial Expert

Mr. Sidhartha Bhattacharya - CEO, Infopark

Mr.Navas Meeran - Managing Director, Eastern Group

Dr.M.P.Sukumaran Nair - Special Secretary to the office of the Chief Minister

Mr. V.S.Das  Executive Director Reserve Bank of India , Inaugurating National Conference on Financial Inclusion and Beyond on September 19,2006

Labour Market: Interventions are a difficult task. Given the available skill sets, income earning opportunities are often difficult to come through in the rural areas.

ISED initiated a pioneering exercise of 'skill mapping' in a village, Kalady in Ernakulam District, Kerala. The ISED model is considered to be an innovative exercise to identify the latest entrepreneurial potential in rural areas. The model is useful for programme implementing agencies.

E.M.Sridharan, Member, State Planning Board, formally releasing the ISED Document on 'Local level Skill Mapping'.

In India, innovation is not a popular concept today. But the emphasis is changing. Meanwhile, innovation should also mean enhanced international co-operation. Non-commercial BDS is a crucial channel for this. BESO, London, is an international partner of ISED, experimenting and delivering non-commercial business development services.
Paul Pettingrew, BESO London, Director(South Asia) at ISED Conference.ochin.

Credit flow to the SME sector remains a thorny issue in the Indian context. ISED has contributed its mite to generate and keep alive the debates in this area.
Dr. A. Vasudevan, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, inaugurating the 'ISED National Conference on Credit Flow in the SME Sector'.

Yes he got the president's Award for the 'Best Craftsman' in the country. But what is left for him is penury and poverty. ISED research team found him at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Local economic development, with SMEs as its engine, cannot be based on any stereotype model. There is enormous scope for learning in a comparative setting.

Roy Abraham, Ex-mayor and Councilor of the City Council of Chesham, UK, visited ISED for discussions in this area.

SMEs need to work in a new environment. They should get themselves turned to a new environment of working on private sector principles. P.M.Mathew, ISED Director, speaks on Public-Private Partnership for SSI Promotion, organized jointly by, ISED and Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturer's Association, Chennai, and ZDH, Germany.

IPR issues, which were none of the business of SMEs, has now become a major issue to be reckoned with. As SMEs dwell on a variety of activities, and often at intermediate stages of production, they cannot just ignore the IPR dimension. Lest they may be caught tomorrow. Satish Murthi, IPR expert, speaking at the ISED workshop on 'Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Small Enterprises'.

Gone are the days of considering migration as an exclusive issue. It is now a wider issue relating to the global economy. The stakes are not only with the migrant and the government, but to the society as a whole. Management expert J.M.I Sait, Journalist Mr.Ajaykumar Menon, Bureaucrat Mr.Jiji Thomson, entrepreneurship trainer Dr.Dinesh Awasthi, Trade Unionist Mr.Sherief Marakar, student Mr.Sathish Jino,entrepreneur Boban Kollanur,banker Mr. Shenoy and economist Dr.Puspangadan debate on this issue.

Industry Associations should think in an innovative fashion. Then only SMEs can reap benefits out of globalization, says Mr. Manoharan, President Kanjikode Industries Forum, Palakkad,speaks at the seminar under the 'PROE-SME' series.

Are craftsman entrepreneurs? ISED was one of the first to think of entrepreneurship models for the handicrafts sector. A programme being inaugurated at Cannanore, Kerala.

ISED entered into a research collaboration with the Technology Development Centre of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. This collaboration is meant for exchange scholars and to share literature in areas of mutual interest. Under this programe, Mr. Thijs Jagersma will join the Institute during the second week of October, 2005. He will work on a research theme entitled 'Information and Communication Technologies in the SME Sector: A Comparative Analysis'. Dr.Joy Clancy of Twente and Dr.P.M.Mathew of ISED will jointly supervise the research of Mr.Thijs Jagesrma.

Local level development (or Panchayathi raj in India) has gained much currency. But how to address the problem of decentralization in a context of globalization?. This thorny issue has been the concern of the Policy Integration Department of the ISED. The institute joined hands with the International Labour Organization and the State Bank of Travancore in order to identify viable models of local economic development. The preliminary work of the Institute at Kottuvally Panchayath in Ernakulam district, kerala, has kindled some interest. The Pachayath Committee has come forward to identify local economic development potential through revitalization local crafts. Several rounds of discussions were held at the tri partite level, among the local government authorities, entrepreneurs and ISED officials. Following this, the local government initiated in organizing an exhibition of craft products, exclusively in connection with the international conference on local economic development and SMEs, organized by ISED.

Entrepreneurship development, though has gained currency in the last two decades, modeling i this area has not received adequate attention. Initiatives in a few Institutes in Europe have made significant contribution. ISED Director P.M.Mathew visited the Swiss Institute for Research on SMEs (KMU-SHG), at Thierry Volery and Mathew have come out with the outline of a co-operation programme between the two institutes.

Kerala's development crisis has attracted substancial international attention. The 'Kerala Model of development', typifies a high physical quality of life of its people, which in comparable to many advanced countries. But the lop-sided development of this high-literate and high-morbid state of the Indian Union is an enigma to many observers on the development scene. ISED, based on its research over the past one decade, came out with an Approach Paper on development of small enterprises in Kerala. The document was formally released by Dr.S.P.Gupta, Member, Planning Commission, at a public function organized by the Institute at Cochin.

The quest for globalization and decentralization, at time, makes economic policy in the modern world far too complex. ' Local economic development' has emerged as the latest paradigm, under which, decentralization need to be looked in a more meaningful way.

The 'International Conference on Local economic Development and ISEDs, organized by ISED at Cochin, India, has come out with the outline of a viable strategy of international networking through its ' Cochin Declaration'. The Conference saw the birth of the 'International Network on SMEs for LOcal Economic Development' (INSLED). NAtional level networks are being set up in various countries. These networks, in turn, are expected to be federated with the INSLED. ISED Small enterprises observatory(ISED_SEo) is empowered by the Conference, to manage the network in the transitional period.

Mr. Thankaraj, President of the "Religious Artifacts Development Society", North Parur, honoring ISED Director, Dr. P.M.Mathew, on the occasion of the Institute being selected as the 'Global Leader in SME promotion'. Also seen, Dr.Sanjeevan, President, Poovanthuruth Industries Association, Kottayam, and other colleagues of Mr. Thankaraj

ISED Director Dr.P.M. Mathew receiving the first Membership application.

Meeting of the Consultative Group on the International Network on SMEs in Local Economic Development (INSLED) in progress. INSLED-INDIA, member of the International Network, was formed at this meeting on November 8, 2005.

The ISED Annual Review entitled, India: The State of Development of SME's-2005, being formally released by Prof. Malcolm Harper. The Publication was received by Mr. H.R. Khan, Pricipal, College of Agricultural Banking, Reserve Bank of India. Seen in the picture are Mayor, Prof. Mercy Williams, and Mr. Muya Mohmed, Representative of Govt. of Tanzania.

Women?s role as entrepreneurs has been a much debated area since the celebration of the International Women?s decade. In India, all ministries of the Union Government and the states now have a gender segregated budget and programmes. However, several studies have shown that many of these programmes and the associated budgetary allocations do not serve the intended purpose in a desirable manner. The ISED project which looks into this aspect is in the process of outlining appropriate institutional structures, which ensure a transparent mechanism which is sustainable.

 
The Kerala  model of development has been well documented in development literature. A characteristic feature of the model is the lopsided development of the Kerala economy. While there has been a tautological thrust on industrial development, and more specifically, small industry, the policy approach is often vague. This study  outlines an approach to Kerala?s small  enterprise development, against the backdrop of the policy thrusts at the national level.
ISED brought out a comprehensive Approach Paper in this context. The document was formally released by Dr S.P.Gupta, Member ,Planning Commission, on August 10,2001.