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Framework to waive open offers needed

This is necessary to ensure that the entire activity is within the bounds of fairness and objectivity

Covid-19 an opportunity to support our 'own innovativeness': Ratan Tata

'It is not a world war but it is like a world war. There is a dramatic need for vaccine, there is a dramatic need for solutions and strange things happen,' Tata said

Business with purpose: Real or fluff?

A story of hunter-gatherers, planters and rainforests

IITs & IIMs launches new consortium to support entrepreneurs, innovation

The new venture is named as 'Innovation-Venturing and Entrepreneurship in India Network (iVEIN)

From SME to MNC

The transformation of Conzerv offers important lessons on scaling up

Women in business can generate 170 mn jobs in India by 2030: Report

This is more than 25% of the new jobs required for the entire working-age population by 2030

Fine tune the opportunity

In part one of a two-part series, the author talks about how startups can identify a need gap

An ex-Microsoft bigwig's mission: 10 mn entrepreneurs, 50 mn jobs by 2030

GAME, a social initiative started by Ravi Venkatesan, aims to create 50 million jobs, half of which would be for women

The potential of design thinking

It stretches the startup's vision beyond current reality to a desired state, even a 10x growth

Stanford's SEED programme training entrepreneurs to end global poverty

It is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to attend a year-long training conducted by the GBS staff

Lack of entrepreneurship programmes in Indian institutes a concern: Report

There is a lack of entrepreneurship programmes in Indian higher education institutes, according to a report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and Ernst & Young (EY), issued at the Ficci Higher Education Summit here on Thursday.The report - Higher education in India: Moving towards global relevance and competitiveness - says only a few Indian higher education institutes have entrepreneurship courses and most of them have been introduced only recently. For instance, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, recently introduced courses on entrepreneurship. Likewise, IIT Kharagpur is considering a micro specialisation in engineering entrepreneurship for its B.Tech students from next year.The report notes that venture-funding as well as governmental support for incubation centres is still at early stages in India. Most incubation centres have been set up only after 2,000 and many of these are as young as eight to 10 years.According to the repor

How a leadership project is creating entrepreneurs in the Himalayas

The basic idea of the project is to allow people to follow their heart and set up businesses they were passionate about

How entrepreneurs learn

Listening to an entrepreneur narrate the highs and lows of his journey may be the easy part

A note of caution for restless entrepreneurs

Here are five behavioural symptoms that bright, young founders should minimise, if not avoid

Entrepreneurs plan, plan and plan

In the frenzy of valuations and technology change, business planning should not become the casualty

Focus or pivot: A growth dilemma

Stay nimble and nurture the capability to diversify or even transform the business model to capitalise on new opportunities in the marketplace

Entrepreneurs & entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is booming in the country. So why are some of our biggest entrepreneurs headed for the door?

This ex-investment banker is tapping entrepreneurs inside rural Indians

He was recently included in the list of 100 "Young Global Leaders" by the World Economic Forum

Entrepreneurs must also create conditions for success: Harvard professor

A tall order, but more practical than relying on a fictitious 'other', says Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna

GAME eyes creation of 10 mn entrepreneurs, 50 mn jobs by 2030 in India

GAME has received initial funding commitment of Rs 1 billion over three years from several Indian and global donors