Technopreneurship education

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Technopreneurship Education: Teach and Train the Youths
Dr. C. Paramasivan1
, M. Selladurai2
1
Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Periyar E.V.R. College (Autonomous),
Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
2
Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of Commerce, Periyar E.V.R. College (Autonomous),
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
*Corresponding Author E-mail: paramselp@yahoo.in, m.selladurai@gmail.com
ABSTRACT:
Most of the developing countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Iran, Philippines have already implemented (and
having successful schedules) the technical education to the graduated students and youth of their nation. But,
India is still lack in this process and now the new government initiated some steps to build a strong technical
education to the young generations of our native. This study has formulated and framed to find the institutions
which are ready to teach and train the youths and seed the intention to become a technical oriented entrepreneur.
This paper attempts to point out the teaching and training of technical entrepreneurship in theoretical aspects.
KEY WORDS: Technical entrepreneurship, Technopreneurship education, Entrepreneurship intention,
Incubation centres.
INTRODUCTION:
Education and teaching is an important factor that boosts
up the economic status of the nation. Proper training and
conducting awareness programs were the keys to
determine the entrepreneurial intention in every
individual. Formal education and regular training with
some promotional activities will surely encourage the
entrepreneurs with technical upgrade. Education and
training were plays the lead role to shape the nascent
entrepreneurs to get a proper place and economically
contributes to compete with global challengers. In India,
unfortunately the present entrepreneurship education is
just focused to feed the candidates with some basic tricks
in a narrow way. The entrepreneurship education and
training were similar with the management education
and practicing the corporate difficulties.
Received on 15.06.2017 Modified on 19.07.2017
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DOI: 10.5958/2321-5763.2017.00178.0
But the management education has no attraction and
inspiration and it doesn’t influence any individual to
become an entrepreneur. Indian ministries and
department of science and technology jointly conducting
many training and awareness programs to promote the
entrepreneurial activities across the nation. Even though,
there is a huge demand and supply gap occurs while
trying to satisfy the needs of the trainees and who are all
ready to attend the training programmes. The contents
and teaching methods and teaching aids used by the
development centres were more traditional in nature. It
should be innovative with some updated applications
may differentiate the policy and it will induce the
candidates to take part in the practical sessions.
Technopreneurship education is a new breed to train the
entrepreneurial ventures in the technical world.
Entrepreneurship education is so familiar to the peoples,
but the term technopreneurship is so fresh and very new
concept to the peoples (RituparnaBasu, 2014). Simply
we can mean that, those who are all ready to incorporate
the innovation and creativity in their business process
with the help of technical background is generally called
as technopreneurs.

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It is a tough task and ultimately a challenging one to
transform our entrepreneurs into technopreneurial world,
even though this is the perfect time to shape them to
create a new atmosphere in the entrepreneurial field. If
we are able to produce more technopreneurs, we can
easily dominate the challengers with our technological
entrepreneurs forever. This paper attempts to examine
the evolution of technopreneurship education India and it
discusses the importance and role of technopreneurship
in Indian economy. It further examines the opportunities
and challenges which are given to the people those who
are willing to become a technopreneur.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE:
Ashok Kumar (2014), have concluded that embedding
entrepreneurship in education and providing greater
access are important steps for building an innovative
culture and creating entrepreneurial individuals and
organizations which in turn, can create economic growth
and jobs and can help to improve quality of life around
the world. Even though the incredible growth in
entrepreneurship education, many challenges remain to
face.
Banerjee (2015), had explained that innovation is
gaining prominence in all kinds of economic activity
around the world. Not only advanced economies but also
developing nations are finding that innovation is one of
the main drivers of economic growth. This renewed
understanding of the significance of innovation is having
a growing impact on the course of policy formulation in
many countries.
Basu (2014), had narrated to develop a working
framework for an entrepreneurship education ecosystem
in India, supported by preliminary inputs and evidence,
should therefore be considered as a conceptual beginning
to work out an improvised design with further validation
of the concepts. Future research ideas to facilitate the
adoption and development of the framework with
empirical results and confirmations.
Brcic and Brodar (2012), had discussed the role of
science and technology parks as generators of
entrepreneurship development. Science and technology
parks represents infrastructure in which it is easier for
small enterprises to overcome difficulties inherent in the
initial start-up period. Also reviewed that the recent
research advantages and disadvantages of science parks
over the last twenty years.
Manjunatha and Nagesha (2013), has revealed that the
growth rate of investment and employment with respect
to tenant entrepreneurs is comparable to that of non-
tenant entrepreneurs. Underutilization of incubation
facilities and services are also observed. Then, the paper
finds the factors driving an individual to become an
entrepreneur, including the tenant and non-tenant
entrepreneurs.
Rehman and Elahi (2012), has made an attempt to
explain the evolution of entrepreneurship education in
India. Then they discusses the importance and role of
entrepreneurship in Indian economy. It further discusses
the challenges with regard to the role of educational
programs and the delivery systems for disseminating
these entrepreneurship education program. They tries to
explain the role of B-schools in shaping and nurturing of
future entrepreneurs in India.
Jamil et al. (2015), had developed a theoretical paper to
review the literature of business incubators particularly
in developing countries context. The extensive literature
in developing countries like China, India, Malaysia and
Pakistan supports the concept of BIs as a part of their
national innovation system and also for economic
development. Also, it provides the useful information to
policy makers, government, academicians and
practitioners about the BIs.
Technopreneurship Education:
Technopreneur: In the simple way we can define that,
“Technopreneurs are thinks like an engineer and acts
like an entrepreneur”. In our nation most of the people
hearing the word technopreneur as very first time
(Paramasivan, 2016). But this is an oldest one when
compared with our neighbour nations. United States and
United Kingdom has started the technopreneurship
process obviously in the 20th
century. United States and
United Kingdom has offering more opportunities to their
technopreneurs from the very beginning. The developing
countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Iran etc.,
conducting a degree course called technopreneurship to
their higher studied students. But in India, it is a new
theme and it takes some sufficient time to reach the
society. Ministry of India provides more promotional
campaigns to induce the entrepreneurs to become a
technopreneur.
A special platform should be created for the welfare of
the technopreneurs and it must be a working playground
for them to examine their business thoughts. The
ministry should make and launch a base where
technopreneurship can be a successful one and where
technopreneurs can implement their new ideas. After
that, they are ready to make some better solutions for the
needs of others. Technopreneur education needs to
highlight the development of skills and talents required
to generate a technical mind set and it leads to train the
future leaders to solve the complicated business
problems. Government needs to concentrate more on
these kinds of activities not only in train the candidates
and also to encourage them and non-governmental
organizations should contribute somewhat better in
attaining the basic information to the stake holders.

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Trend on Technopreneur:
In the early period of 21st
century, India faced an
unbreakable problem called “unemployment”. Many
youngsters and degree holders with high potential skills
are also unable to find a provisional job position. If so,
they are not able to grab the correct salary for their
effort. Indian government also made some initiative
actions to solve unemployment in India. But, all the
steps taken by the government leads it to the failure path.
The young generations of India are helpless and restless
with anger and blames the government that, they are
useless and having no idea about to solve this issue
(Kanchana, 2013). The officials were framed so many
prospects, even though the problem was unsolvable one.
In this occasion, the government concentrates more on
the entrepreneurship education and also focuses on the
main branches of the entrepreneurship stream. By this
way technopreneurship, edupreneurship, social
entrepreneurship, argopreneurship were developed with
most advancement features. For this, the government
receives financial assistance and manual support from
Reserve Bank of India. By this, the entrepreneurship
education was introduced with several offers and
opportunities. Consequently, the technopreneurship
education was exclusively provided in the form of
training programmes, awareness campaigns, together
exhibitions, competitions for the public and
entrepreneurship events and courses are exclusively
conducted for the school and college students.
India established more training institutes and incubation
centres exclusively for the career development of the
technopreneurs. Technopreneurship education continues
its focus on the training aimed to create more self-
employment opportunities and business peoples
throughout the nation. The education sector and the
government officials plans to implement these programs
to the welfare of the graduating students, for that they
have planned more entrepreneurship orientation
programs to the technical and management institutions.
This drive inspires the other management and technical
institutions to offer the technopreneurship education and
similar courses relates to that.
Some of the major institutions offering
technopreneurship programmes are:
 National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship
Development Board
 National Institute of Small Industry Extension and
Training
 Science and Technology Entrepreneurship
Development
 Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career
Development
 Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
 Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
 Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park
 Department of Science and Technology
 Technology Business Incubators
Research and Educational Institutions:
Educational Institution Location Year Thrust Area
Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering
College –STEP
National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli
1986 Embedded systems, Manufacturing
Engineering, Energy
Science and Technology Entrepreneurs
Park
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur
1986 IT software incl. Mobile applications,
Hardware
Society for Innovation and Development Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore
1991 Bioinformatics, Image processing and
Recognition
Xavier Institute of Management and
Entrepreneurship
Xavier Institute of Management,
Bangalore
1991 Sector agnostic
The International Centre for
Entrepreneurship and Technology
iCreate, Ahmedabad 2000 IT, Electronics, Biotech and
Nanotechnology, Robotics
SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur
2000 Technology Engineering and All
interdisciplinary areas
Science and Technology Entrepreneurs
Park
JSS Academy of Technology
Education, Noida
2000 IT software incl. Mobile applications,
Hardware
NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial
Learning
Indian Institute of Management,
Bangalore
2002 ICT, Clean technology and Embedded
systems and design sectors
Centre for Innovation, Incubation and
Entrepreneurship
Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad
2002 Agriculture, Cleantech, Healthcare, ICT
AgriBusiness and Innovation Platform International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics,
Hyderabad
2003 Agri-Business (Agri-Products)
Technology Business Incubator Vellore Institute of Technology,
Vellore
2003 IT software incl. Mobile applications,
Manufacturing
Society for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
Indian Institute of Technology,
Mumbai
2004 Technology Entrepreneurship
Technology Business Incubator Birla Institute of Technology and
Science, Hyderabad
2004 IT software incl. Mobile applications,
Hardware
National Design Business Incubator National Institute of Design,
Ahmedabad
2005 Sector agnostic

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Centre for Entrepreneurship Development S.P. Jain Institute of Management
and Research, Mumbai
2007 Sector agnostic
Amity Innovation Incubator Amity University, Noida 2008 Technology Entrepreneurship
Innovation Centre International Institute of Information
Technology, Bangalore
2009 Information Technology
Design Business Incubator Mudra Institute of Communications,
Ahmedabad
2009 IT software incl. Mobile applications,
Speciality sectors
Incubation Cell Indian Institute of Technology,
Chennai
2013 Technology and Knowledge based
ventures
Source: Entrepreneurship and Start-up Activities at Indian Higher Education Institutions, January 2016
These are the major institutions to provide
technopreneurial education and technical oriented
programmes for the welfare and development of the
educated peoples. There are different kinds of
entrepreneurship courses and career development
activities were offering to the interested candidates with
nominal fee. These training courses and incubation
programmes were enlighten the life of unemployed and
differently abled peoples to take over them in the
entrepreneurial environment to lead their life alone
without seeking support from the others. By this way the
financial and economical level of both the candidate and
the nation moves towards the achievement. Diploma in
entrepreneurship, family managed business programmes,
corporate venturing, social entrepreneurship, rural
entrepreneurship, start your business programme are
some of the peak courses and trainings offered by the
research and educational institutions (Rehman, 2012). So
many universities like Kamaraj University, Pondicherry
University, and JN University are also hands together to
provide these kinds of self-employment and career
development programmes.
CONCLUSION:
This paper concludes that, the technopreneurial
education system is an excellent service made by the
government for the welfare of the young generation of
the nation. With the support of research and educational
training institutions the officials are endorsing and
motivating the young employed and unemployed persons
towards the entrepreneurship environment. By
demonstrating so many real time examples of the
succeed persons and exhibiting awareness campaigns on
technopreneurship, can easily seed and develop the
technopreneurial spirit in the individuals mind. The
research training institutes and incubation centres are
able to inspire the peoples to enroll and get proper
guidance and education of the technical based
entrepreneurship ventures. Even though, the higher
educational institutions and the universities may improve
their efficiency and productivity of technopreneurship
education by concentrating on the weakness peoples to
get better employment education towards the
technopreneurship venture. Apart from this, the
government also make some alterations in the
amendment for the ease of doing business and make
more attention on convincing the young people’s
towards entrepreneurship and build the proper
infrastructure and adequate financial opportunities for
the young generations. If the technical plans were
implemented, India may enlighten the lives of many
individual’s and also create an energetic position in the
global spot.
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