Entrepreneurship Development and Communication Skills

Syllabus - Theory

• Entrepreneurship Development: Assessing overall business environment in the Indian economy.
• Overview of Indian social, political and economic systems and their implications for decision making by individual entrepreneurs.
• Globalisation and the emerging business / entrepreneurial environment.
• Concept of entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial and managerial characteristics; managing an enterprise; motivation and entrepreneurship development; importance of planning, monitoring, evaluation and follow up; managing competition; entrepreneurship development programs; SWOT analysis, Generation, incubation and commercialization of ideas and innovations.
• Government schemes and incentives for promotion of entrepreneurship.
• Government policy on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) / SSIs.
• Export and Import Policies relevant to fisheries sector.
• Venture capital. Contract farming and joint ventures, public-private partnerships.
• Overview of fisheries inputs industry.
• Characteristics of Indian fisheries processing and export industry.
• Social Responsibility of Business. Communication Skills: Structural and functional grammar; meaning and process of communication, verbal and non-verbal communication; listening and note taking, writing skills, oral presentation skills; field diary and lab record; indexing, footnote and bibliographic procedures.
• Reading and comprehension of general and technical articles, pr 閏 is writing, summarizing, abstracting; individual and group presentations, impromptu presentation, public speaking; Group discussion.
• Organizing seminars and conferences.