Entrepreneurship

Paper Code: 
25GBBA302A
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to

1. provide a comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurial theory, enabling students to analyse, evaluate, and apply theoretical frameworks to real-world entrepreneurial challenges.

 

Course Outcomes: 

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Learning Outcome

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Learning and teaching

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Assessment

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Entrepreneurship

(Theory)

CO169: To analyse various dimensions of entrepreneurship and facilitating a holistic understanding throughintegrated analysis.

CO170: To integrate knowledge on promoting a new venture and valuation for a new company

CO171: To evaluate the various forms of business ownership and evaluating the diverse sources of innovation in business for strategic decision-making

CO172: To analyse the role of government in entrepreneurial development and methods for encouraging change within family business systems.

CO173: To synthesize knowledge on financing entrepreneurial ventures for fostering entrepreneurial growth

CO174: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Approach in teaching: Interactive Hours, Group discussions, problem solving sessions.

 

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions,  Chart preparation.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Entrepreneurship & Entrepreneur:

Entrepreneurship: Meaning, Nature, Benefits, Classification of Entrepreneurship, Evolution of the Concept of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Process Entrepreneur: Competencies of an Entrepreneur, Types of Entrepreneurs, Role and Functions of Entrepreneur

 

12.00
Unit II: 

Promotion of a New Venture & Business Plan:

Promotion of a New Venture: Search for a Business Idea – Sources of Ideas, Idea Processing and Selection; Pre-start-up Implementation – Assembling Necessary Inputs; Establishing the Enterprise and Start-up Stage – Start-up Operating objectives, Positioning the Enterprise Business  Plan:  Concept,  Characteristics,  steps  in  developing  a  Business  Plan,  Need  and Importance  of  Business  Plan,  Feasibility  Study  for  New  business,  Valuation  of  a  New Company

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Forms of Business Ownership & Entrepreneurship Creativity and Innovation:

Forms of Business Ownership: Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Limited Liability partnership and Corporation form, Joint Stock, Co-operative Venture, Franchising Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation: Meaning, Creativity Vs Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Process, Stimulating Creativity; Organizational actions that enhance/hinder creativity, Sources of Innovation in Business

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Role of Government in Entrepreneurial Development & Family Businessand Entrepreneurship:

Role of Government in Entrepreneurial Development: Need; Government Assistance, Incentives and Schemes for Infrastructural facilities Family Business and Entrepreneurship: Concept of Family business, Structure and Kinds of family firms, Management  of  family  enterprises,  Conflict  and  conflict  resolution  in  family firms, Encouraging Change in the family business system

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Financing the Entrepreneurial Business:

Financing the Entrepreneurial Business: Sources of finance – Short-term and Long-term; Loan syndication, Consortium finance, Venture capital, Angel Investors; Institutional Support to Entrepreneurs: SIDBI, IDBI, IFCI, FIWE

 

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 

 ESSENTIAL READINGS:

1.       Burns, P., Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Palgrave, New Jersey

2.       Drucker, P. F., Innovation and entrepreneurship: Practice and principles, Elsevier,            USA

3.       Hisrich, R., & Peters, M., Entrepreneurship, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi

 

REFERENCES: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

1.       Holt, D. H., Entrepreneurship new venture creation, Prentice Hall India, New             Delhi

2.       Kaplan, J., Patterns of entrepreneurship, Wiley

3.       G.S Sudha, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, R.B.D Publications Jaipur

4.       Vasant Desai, Entrepreneurial Development, Himalaya Publishing House

5.       Roy Rajeev, Entrepreneurship, Oxford Higher Education

 

e-RESOURCES:

1. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Entrepreneurial_Development/uUdLAgAA       QBAJ? hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Entrepreneurship+full+preview&printsec=frontcover

2.  https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Oxford_Handbook_of_Entrepreneur                                                                                                                                               ship/3UutoOJn1RkChl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Entrepreneurship+full+preview&printsec      frontcover

3.   https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Innovation_and_Entrepreneurship/OiuDB      AAAQ BAJ?en&gbpv=1&dq=Entrepreneurship+full+preview&printsec=frontcover

 

Academic Year: 
2025-26
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