Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

An Acknowledged National Resource Organisation Engaged in Entrepreneurship Education, Research, Training & Institution Building. This Linkedin page is the official page of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), an autonomous and not-for-profit Institute, set up in 1983, is sponsored by apex financial institutions - the IDBI Bank Ltd., IFCI Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd. and State Bank of India (SBI). The Government of Gujarat pledged twenty-three acres of land on which stands the majestic and sprawling EDI campus. The PGDM–BE two-year, full-time, residential programme at the EDI, now in its seventeenth batch of delivering entrepreneurship education, has been designed specifically for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial mangers to encourage critical and lateral thinking, nurture their ambitions, and enable new ventures through an academically rigorous, directly relevant and highly practical learning experience. MISSION: -creating a multiplier effect on opportunities for self-employment, -augmenting the supply of competent entrepreneurs through training,. -augmenting the supply of entrepreneur trainer-motivators, -participating in institution building efforts, -inculcating the spirit of 'Entrepreneurship' in youth, -promoting micro enterprises at rural level, -developing and disseminating new knowledge and insights in entrepreneurial theory and practice through research, -facilitating corporate excellence through creating intrapreneurs (entrepreneurial managers), -improving managerial capabilities of small scale industries, -sensitising the support system to facilitate potential and existing entrepreneurs establish and manage their enterprises, -collaborating with similar organisations in India and other developing countries to accomplish the above objectives