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If words are considered as symbol of approval and taken of appreciation then let
the words play the heralding role of expressing my sincerest gratitude and thanks
A Project usually falls short of its expectation unless guided by the right person at
the right time. Success of a project is an outcome of sincere efforts, channeled in
the right direction, efficient supervision and the most valuable professional
guidance.
This project would not have been completed without the direct and indirect help
and guidance of such luminaries. They provide me with the necessary recourses
and atmosphere.
I am today. In the end I would like to my parents for giving me strength in times
when I thought I would never be able to complete this project. I thank them again
and again for letting me be where
I am thankful to all of my friends and batch mates for their help in
completing this project work. Finally, I am thankful to my entire family
members for their great support and encouragement.
Entrepreneurship is he act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who
undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into
economic goods".
Definition of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs see problems as opportunities, then take action to identify the solutions to
those problems and the customers who will pay to have those problems solved.
According to intellectuals and business experts, the definition of entrepreneurship is simply the
combining of ideas, hard work, and adjustment to the changing business market. It also entails
meeting market demands, management.
Innovation is by far the primary factor that governs the very creation of a small business or
entrepreneurship. Innovations can be processes or even products.
One example of a process could be the creation of ideas through the written word. Products can
refer to anything that is created that can be sold, whether it is a new type of glue or even a
service that provides; for example, housecleaning.
INVOLVES RISK i.e entrepreneurial decisions are vast and can not be reverted easily
and involve great deal of investments.
The entrepreneur as a person who undertakes a commercial venture organizes it, raises
capital to finance it or a major portion of the risk.
TYPES of ENTREPRENEURS
INNOVATIVE i.e introduction of something new to the nation (e.g: Dhirubhai Ambani,
Indian entrepreneur);
IMITATING i.e. one who adopts a method of production or technology already adopted
by someone else and may not be able to afford resources for entrepreneurial research;
FABIAN i.e those who are cautious in adopting any changes and are shy and lazy to
adopt new methods
DRONE i.e. those who resist changes and continue to use old or traditional methods of
production.
ENTREPRENEUR
An Entrepreneur is an individual who efficiently and effectively combines the four factors of
production. Those factors are land (natural resources), labor (human input into production using
available resources), capital (any type of equipment used in production i.e. machinery) and
Enterprise (intelligence, knowledge, and creativity.)
Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, as many new ventures fail. is often . Most
commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone who creates value by offering a product or
service. Entrepreneurs often have strong beliefs about a market opportunity and organize their
resources effectively to accomplish an outcome that changes existing interactions.
Business entrepreneurs are viewed as fundamentally important in the capitalistic society. Some
distinguish business entrepreneurs as either "political entrepreneurs" or "market entrepreneurs,"
while social entrepreneurs' principal objectives include the creation of a social and/or
environmental benefit.
The Enterprise can be set up in a designated industrial areas, where infrastructure facilities are
available and is near to the market identified. It can also be set up in any other area depending
upon nature of activity and local municipal rules.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ENTREPRENEUR
Entrepreneurs have many of the same character traits as leaders, similar to the early great man
theories of leadership; Entrepreneurs are often contrasted with managers and administrators who
are said to be more methodical and less prone to risk-taking. Such person-centric models of
entrepreneurship have shown to be of questionable validity, not least as many real-life
entrepreneurs operate in teams rather than as single individuals
The Entrepreneur takes the initial responsibility to cause a vision to become a success.
ADVANTAGES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Every successful entrepreneur brings about benefits not only for himself/ herself but for the
municipality, region or country as a whole. The benefits that can be derived from entrepreneurial
activities are as follows:
2 Self-employment, offering more job satisfaction and flexibility of the work force.
4 Encouragement of the processing of local materials into finished goods for domestic
consumption as well as for export.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF ENTREPRENEURS
Under the modern concept of marketing, markets are people who are willing and able to satisfy
their needs. In Economics, this is called effective demand. Entrepreneurs are resourceful and
creative. They can create customers or buyers. This makes entrepreneurs different from ordinary
businessmen who only perform traditional functions of management like planning, organization,
and coordination.
Entrepreneurs are never satisfied with traditional or existing sources of materials. Due to their
innovative nature, they persist on discovering new sources of materials to improve their
enterprises. In business, those who can develop new sources of materials enjoy a comparative
advantage in terms of supply, cost and quality.
Entrepreneurs are the organizers and coordinators of the major factors of production, such as
land labor and capital. They properly mix these factors of production to create goods and service.
Capital resources, from a layman's view, refer to money. However, in economics, capital
resources represent machines, buildings, and other physical productive resources. Entrepreneurs
have initiative and self-confidence in accumulating and mobilizing capital resources for new
business or business expansion.
Aside from being innovators and reasonable risk-takers, entrepreneurs take advantage of
business opportunities, and transform these into profits. So, they introduce something new or
something different. Such entrepreneurial spirit has greatly contributed to the modernization of
economies. Every year, there are new technologies and new products. All of these are intended to
satisfy human needs in a more convenient and pleasant way.
5) Create Employment.
The biggest employer is the private business sector. Millions of jobs are provided by the
factories, service industries, agricultural enterprises, and the numerous small-scale businesses.
PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship was potential to support economic growth and social cohesion, it is the policy
goal of many governments to develop a culture of entrepreneurial thinking. This can be done in a
number of ways: by integrating entrepreneurship into education systems, legislating to encourage
risk-taking, and national campaigns
Many of these initiatives have been brought together under the umbrella of Global
Entrepreneurship Week, a worldwide celebration and promotion of youth entrepreneurship,
which started in 2008.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
Financial assistance is available from institutions such as Nationalised Banks, Small Industries
Development Bank of India, Regional Rural Banks, National Small Industries Corporation, State
Financial Corporations etc. depending upon the project requirement and promoters background.
Financial assistance has two components. Loan for fixed capital is used to acquire Plant and
Machinery, land and building. Working capital loan is used to meet day to day operational cost of
the production. State Financial Corporation and National Small Industries Corporation generally
provide working capital. However under a package assistance, State Financial Corporations also
provide a composite loan covering plant and machinery and working capital.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in market economies are the engine of economic
development. Owing to their private ownership, entrepreneurial spirit, their flexibility and
adaptability as well as their potential to react to challenges and changing environments, SMEs
contribute to sustainable growth and employment generation in a significant manner.
SMEs have strategic importance for each national economy due a wide range of reasons.
Logically, the government shows such an interest in supporting entrepreneurship and SMEs.
There is no simpler way to create new job positions, increasing GDP and rising standard of
population than supporting entrepreneurship and encouraging and supporting people who dare to
start their own business. Every surviving and successful business means new jobs and growth of
GDP.
ii) To advise on business planning, marketing and accountancy, quality control and
assurance;
iii) To create incubator units providing the space and infrastructure for business
beginners and innovative companies, and helping them to solve technological problems, and to
search for know-how and promote innovation; and
iv) To help in looking for partners. In order to stimulate entrepreneurship and improve
the business environment for small enterprises.
Training
Basic training differs from product to product but will necessary involve sharpening of
entrepreneurial skills. Need based technical training is provided by the Govt. & State Govt.
technical Institutions.
There are a number of Government organisations as well as NGOs who conduct EDPs and
MDPs. These EDPs and MDPs and are conducted by MSME's, NIESBUD, NSIC, IIE, NISIET,
Entrepreneurship Development Institutes and other state government developmental agencies.
Marketing Assistance
There are Governmental and non-governmental specialised agencies which provide marketing
assistance. Besides promotion of MSME products through exhibitions, NSIC directly market the
MSME produce in the domestic and overseas market. NSIC also manages a single point
registration scheme for manufacturers for Govt. purchase. Units registered under this scheme get
the benefits of free tender documents and exemption from earnest money deposit and
performance guarantee.
Promotional Schemes
Government of India has been executing the incentive scheme for providing reimbursement of
charges for acquiring ISO 9000 certification to the extent of 75% of the cost subject to a
maximum of Rs. 75,000/- in each case. ISO 9000 is a mechanism to facilitate adoption of
consistent management practices and production technique as decided by the entrepreneur
himself. This facilitates achievement of desired level of quality while keeping check on
production process and management of the enterprise.
MSME units with a turnover of Rs. 1 crore or less per year have been exempted from payment
of Excise Duty. Moreover there is a general scheme of excise exemption for MSME brought out
by the Ministry of Finance which covers most of the items. Under this, units having turnover of
less than Rs. 3 crores are eligible for concessional rate of Excise Duty. Moreover, there is an
exemption from Excise Duty for MSME units producing branded goods in rural areas
Credit to micro, small and medium scale sector has been covered under priority sector lending
by banks. Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has been established as the apex
institution for financing the MSME. Specific schemes have been designed for implementation
through SIDBI, SFCs, Scheduled Banks, SIDCs and NSIC etc. Loans upto Rs. 5 lakhs are made
available by the banks without insisting on collaterals. Further Credit Guarantee Fund for micro,
small and medium enterprises has been set up to provide guarantee for loans to MSME up to Rs.
25 lakhs extended by Commercial Banks and some Regional Rural Bank.
Policies And Schemes For Promotion Of MSME Implemented By State
Governments
All the State Governments provide technical and other support services to small units through
their Directorates of Industries, and District Industries Centres. Although the details of the
scheme vary from state to state, the following are the common areas of support.
3 Power subsidies
Profit planning offers many advantages to your business. The modest investment in time
required to develop and implement the plan will pay liberal dividends later. Among the
benefits that your business can enjoy from profit planning are the following:
* Performance evaluation. The profit plan provides a continuing standard against which sales
performance and cost control can quickly be evaluated.
* Awareness of responsibilities. With the profit plan, personnel are readily aware of their
responsibilities for meeting sales objectives, controlling costs, and the like.
* Cost consciousness. Since cost excesses can quickly be identified and planned,
expenditures can be compared with budgets even before they are incurred, cost
consciousness is increased, reducing unnecessary costs and overspending.
* Thinking about the future. Too often, small businesses neglect to plan ahead: thinking about
where they are today, where they will be next year, or the year after. As a result, opportunities
are overlooked and crises occur that could have been avoided. Development of the profit plan
requires thinking about the future so that many problems can be avoided before they arise.
* Financial planning. The profit plan serves as a basis for financial planning. With the
information developed from the profit plan, you can anticipate the need for increased
investment in receivables, inventory, or facilities as well as any need for additional capital.
Economic development essentially means a process of upward change whereby the real
important role to play in the development of a country. It is one of the most important
supports the fact that economic development is the outcome for which entrepreneurship
is an inevitable cause. The crucial and significant role played by the entrepreneurs in
the economic development of advanced countries has made the people of developing and
development. It is now a widely accepted fact that active and enthusiastic entrepreneurs
can only explore the potentials of the countries availability of resourses such as labour,
The role of entrepreneurs is not identical in the various economies. Depending on the
material resources, industry climate and responsiveness of the political system, it varies
opportunity conditions.
they offer jobs to millions. Thus entrepreneurship is the best way to fight the evil of
unemployment.
2) National Income :
National Income consits of the goods and services produced in the country and
imported. The goods and services produced are for consumption within the country as
well as to meet the demand of exports. The domestic demand increases with increase in
population and increase in standard of living. The export demand also increases to meet
entrepreneurers are required to meet this increasing demand for goods and services.
The growth of Industry and business leads to a lot of Public benefits like transport
facilities, health, education, entertainment etc. When the industries are concentrated in
selected cities, development gets limited to these cities. A rapid development . When the
new entrepreneurers grow at a faster rate, in view of increasing competition in and
around cities, they are forced to set up their enterprises in the smaller towns away from
hands. This concentration of power in a few hands has its own evils in the form of
economic power amongst the population. Thus it helps in weakening the harmful effects
of monopoly.
Entrepreneurers are able to produce goods at lower cost and supply quality goods at
lower price to the community according to their requirements.When the price of of the
commodies decreases the consumers get the power to buy more goods for their
satisfaction. In this way they can increase the standard of living of the people.
6) Creating innovation :
An entrepreneur is a person who always look for changes. apart from combining the
factors of production, he also introduces new ideas and new combination of factors. He
always try to introduce newer and newer technique of production of goods and services.
development of the country. The Role played by the entrepreneurship development can
" Economic development is the effect for which entrepreneurship is a cause "
It is accepted worldwide that the development and growth of small, micro and medium
enterprises (SMMEs) can play an important role in turning this situation around. Policies and
programmes to support the development of SMMEs are therefore an important part of the
democratic governments programmes to create a better life.
A strategy was outlined in a White paper by the Department of Trade and Industry (the lead
department for SMME development) entitled: A National Strategy for the Development of
Small Business in South Africa (May 1995). A year later, the National Small Business Act was
passed by Parliament, which provided for the institutions to implement this strategy.
Category of Description
SMME
The governments national small business strategy seeks to address the following common
problems faced by SMMEs:
Alleviating poverty, by making it possible for poor people to generate income to meet
basic needs;
The national small business development strategy also seeks to strengthen cohesion amongst
small enterprises and to level the playing field between big and small business.
In addition to the listed institutions, there are also NGOs, donors and private sector organisations
(e.g. the programme by the Banking Council of SA) who support SMMEs. The Black Economic
Empowerment Commission, an initiative of black business, also highlighted the importance of
SMME development for broad based black empowerment.
Institution Services Target
Khula-Start: access to
micro credit in rural
areas
Developing SMME
orientated procurement
and sub-contracting
policies for provincial
government
Targeted support
programmes for HDIs,
women, contractors,
tourism entrepreneurs,
small/micro
manufacturers, etc
The promotion of SMMEs has become an objective across government. Many departments have
specific strategies in place, for example developing SMMEs in the tourism sector, or developing
small and emerging contractors by Housing and Public Works, Land and Agriculture, Arts and
Culture and so forth. The promotion of SMMEs is also an important part of the different spatial
development initiatives and the Urban Renewal and Rural Development strategies.
As part of the National Skills Development Strategy, the Sector Education and Training
Authorities (SETAs) are also supposed to develop programmes that help develop small
businesses in their respective sectors.
There are a number of other parastatals which also support small businesses, though mainly at
the upper end of the spectrum. These include:
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS): through its missing links programme provide
quality assistance and awareness to SMMEs.
Centre for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR): product improvement and
manufacturing assistance to SMMEs through their National Manufacturing Centre.
The Manufacturing Strategy (2001) of the DTI identified a range of sectors with potential for
growth of SMMEs. These included tourism, agro-processing, business services, cultural
industries, etc, with sectoral strategies to achieve this objective for each of these sectors.
7 Business management support services
The institutions and organisations mentioned above also provide a wide range of business
management support services to entrepreneurs and small enterprises, such as:
Marketing
Business development
BRAIN, the business referral and information network, established by the DTI provides a
national helpline and has a data base of services and organisations in each province which
provide these services.
Lack of access to finances continues to be the major problem faced by people who want to start
their own businesses, or to expand their businesses to become more profitable. Commercial
banks generally do not regard the majority of people as bankable or creditworthy. An important
part of the national small business strategy is therefore to create an enabling environment for
entrepreneurs and small businesses to access finances. Although a number of institutions have
been set up, we still have a very long way to go.
In the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, government has committed to establish an Apex
Fund which will lend directly to micro enterprises, and has voted R10 billion to recapitalise the
existing institutions like Khula and Ntsika.
Commercial Banks
Land Bank
Sizanani Scheme
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Business Finance Promotion Agency (Khula RFI)
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An estimated 700 SMMEs and 3 640 micro-enterprises will benefit from these projects over the
next three years, and approximately 17 000 jobs are expected to be created.
Contact, Aim to reach more than 730 000 young people over the
information & next three years, offering information and counselling
counselling support regarding career development, employment and
entrepreneurship through a youth line, advisory centres and
an Internet portal. The first 12 of 33 planned advisory
centres have already opened in the provinces of Gauteng,
KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Northern Cape, North West, and
Western Cape.
growth, and poverty alleviation in West Virginia is analyzed using time-series data from
1980 to 2001. Four econometric equations in double-log form are regressed using OLS
and 2SLS. The results of these regressions show that:
1) There is a robust, positive relationship between the relative size of small business
and economic growth, even when controlling both for a number of many other
growth determinant variables and for simultaneity bias;
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2) There is a strong inverse relationship between the relative size of small business and
the incidence of poverty;
3) There is a strong inverse relationship between the per capita Real Gross State
Product growth and the incidence of poverty;
4) The autonomous impact of the relative size of small business on poverty rate is mild
and insignificant, indicating that the strong inverse relation given in (2) is through
economic growth rather than a direct one. Thus, the anti-poverty impact of small
business development is mainly through its impact on economic growth of the
economy as given in (1). The empirical result establishes the link between small
business development, economic growth, and poverty alleviation.
The study supports the anti-poverty impacts of small business development
research findings. Besides, the empirical results and analysis show that unemployment
rate has a strong counter-cyclical impact on economic growth and cyclical effect on the
incidence of poverty. Government Transfer programs are positively related with the
incidence of poverty, which may be because they act as disincentive to work or not high
enough to put the recipient above the poverty line. This indicates that strong
macroeconomic performance is a key factor for poverty alleviation.
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