The document announces a workshop on entrepreneurship development hosted by Mindkeys in partnership with AIDIA. The workshop will be held on May 29th in Kathmandu and aims to provide participants insights into transforming ideas into businesses. It will include speeches from successful entrepreneurs, activities, discussions, and networking. The objectives are to encourage entrepreneurship and support youth in starting businesses. International experts Christopher Lingle and Francois Driard will speak along with local entrepreneur Ujjwal Chhapagain. The workshop methodology incorporates various sessions and participants must register by May 20th.

1. Workshop On
‘Entrepreneurship Development’
‘Transforming IDEAS into BUSINESS’
Partner Organization:
Mindkeys™
Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-01-2299535
Email: mail.mindkeys@gmail.com, info@mindkeys.com.np
www.mindkeys.com.np

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Contents
About us: ............................................................................................................... 2
Mindkeys™........................................................................................................ 2
About Partner Organization AIDIA .................................................................... 2
General Background and Overview: ...................................................................... 3
About the workshop:.............................................................................................. 4
Objectives of workshop: ........................................................................................ 4
Methodology of the workshop: .............................................................................. 5
Speech/Story Sharing Session............................................................................. 5
Activities Session ............................................................................................... 5
Active Discussion/ Interactive Learning Session ................................................ 5
Networking Session............................................................................................ 5
Resource persons of the workshop:........................................................................ 6
Prof. Dr. Christopher Lingle ............................................................................... 6
Mr. Francois Driard ............................................................................................ 7
Mr. Ujjwal Chhapagain....................................................................................... 7
Expected Outcomes: .............................................................................................. 8
Location and Date:................................................................................................. 8
Registration Information and Application Instruction: ........................................... 8
Application Form................................................................................................... 9

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About us:
Mindkeys™ is an institute established to provide high-level expertise in training &
development and research & management consulting. We are committed to provide services to
individuals, small or medium businesses, and corporate houses that need trainings, information
and services on various areas of concern.
Mindkeys™ is committed to provide its clients with not just a tool but value added customized
trainings and development programs as well as quality information to assist them in utilizing it to
the optimum level. We also assure to provide right solutions to business enabling them to benefit
long after we have finished our work. We have chosen this field of work because we believe and
understand that right research, right plan and right training are the necessities to boost up any
business.
We do not just plan to market and sell our products, but provide our clients with high quality
solution and information packages for the growth of their business and the overall economy.
About Partner Organization AIDIA: Asian Institute of Diplomacy and International
Affairs (AIDIA) is a research, consultation as well as study based organization in the field of
diplomacy and international relations. Its Council of Administration is composed of
academicians, diplomats and bureaucrats. The Asian Institute of Diplomacy and International
Affairs aims at contributing to the country’s foreign policy through research, meetings and
publications. International conferences, seminars and workshops are also organized mainly in
cooperation with the foreign counterparts which are diplomatic institutions in other countries as
well as universities and other academic institutions. For further details log in to:
www.aidiaasia.com
Contact:
Mindkeys™
Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-01-2299535
Email: mail.mindkeys@gmail.com, info@mindkeys.com.np
www.mindkeys.com.np

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WORKSHOP ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
General Background and Overview:
Nepal is a highly lucrative and ever growing economy where there is tremendous opportunities
waiting to get cashed. A famous saying, ‘Problem is an opportunity in itself’ rightly fits here and
there is a remarkable prospect for business ventures to be successful in Nepal. Entrepreneurs are
one of the major pillars that can lend a hand in rapid economic growth of Nepal. They are the
change agents who start up projects that create opportunities to wealth generation, employment
and economic growth. An Entrepreneur creates opportunities not just for oneself but more
importantly for others.
According to Peter Drucker, “An entrepreneur is one who always searches for change, responds
to it and exploits it as an opportunity. Innovation is a specific tool by which he exploits change
as an opportunity, for a business or service.”
There is always an opportunity in the face of risk and uncertainty. The entrepreneur takes
initiatives, become innovative and always looks for high achievements. Through the eyes of an
entrepreneur, the change is an opportunity. Let’s take some instances, Mr. Bata who has started
his career as a cobbler, has stores of his products in more than 30 countries in the world. Mr.
Dhirubhai Ambani, the clerk of that time who is neither from Business family, nor possesses an
MBA degree is in the list of richest persons in FORBES magazine. Mark Zukenberg of
Facebook, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple got high achievements in their life
not by any degree, but only because of their abilities to take risky initiatives for their innovative
ideas.
The potential of economic development is not as desired in Nepal because of underdeveloped
human resources. Indeed, the most important factor for economic and overall development of
nation is truly the human resources. In absence of abundant capable human resource, the
sufficiency of other resources does not lead us to significant growth. The major challenge here in
Nepal is to create the capable human resources that can create the plentiful opportunities to self
and others.
In present scenario, there are many unemployed youths in our country. Students are graduating
and unemployed rate is increasing substantially. Many graduates are knocking from pillar to
post, checking with employment exchanges, friends, relatives and still not getting job as per their
ability, or hardly getting third rated jobs. Many Nepalese are draining in foreign lands for
employment whereas some foreigners are seeing opportunities in Nepal and setting examples of
entrepreneurship in Nepal.

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About the workshop:
What if there is no job after you graduate?
Do you really like to be a job creator rather than the job seeker?
Do you want to live your dream?
If these questions arise frequently from inner core of your heart, Mindkeys’s Workshop on
Entrepreneurship Development can be the right platform to develop a confidence in you to
take initiatives for your innovative ideas to make yourself successful.
Of late, the need of entrepreneurship in the growing economy like ours is realized. The pillar of
the nation-the youths, need an encouragement to become what they desire to be. We believe
entrepreneur are made and not born. Entrepreneurs, ‘The change agent’, need to develop the
tendency of the mind to take calculated risk with confidence to achieve their goal and objective.
It is often required the proper training and guidelines to cope up with the barriers and to achieve
the desired goal. The spirit of entrepreneurship constructs the dynamic society and flourishes the
positive message like a chain reaction. This workshop endeavor to equip the youths to become an
entrepreneur and become a dynamic ingredient of national growth and prosperity.
The workshop aims at providing participants with insights on tools for the process of
transforming ideas into business. The workshop would be based on Speech and story sharing by
successful entrepreneurs, active discussion, activities, networking and the interactive learning.
Objectives of workshop:
To create platform for knowledge generation.
To discuss and understands the concept of entrepreneurship.
To highlight the importance of entrepreneurship.
To provide the insights of tools and process of transforming ideas into business.
To facilitate an exchange and sharing of ideas and innovation.
To discuss, understand and highlight the potential opportunities and innovations.
To support and encourage youth to start-up a business.

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Methodology of the workshop:
Basically, the workshop is divided into four different sessions. The program beginning with
Story Sharing/ Speech Session will end with Networking Session. In between these two sessions,
there will be other two sessions called Active Discussion/Interactive learning session and the
Activities Session.
Speech/Story Sharing Session: In this session International business experts will make
participants clear on the basic understandings of entrepreneurship. They will provide tools and
process for making innovative ideas viable in actions. They will focus on figuring out the
possible opportunities in Nepal. Similarly, some successful entrepreneurs of Nepal will share
their story in transforming their innovative ideas into business. This session will last for about
two and half hours.
Activities Session: Activities Session will follow the Speech/ Story Sharing Session. This
session will begin by showing some short inspirational video documentaries of successful
entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs present in the workshop will further elaborate it. In between the
video documentaries showing with live explanation by entrepreneurs, participants will be played
some entrepreneurship/business games. This session will last for about one hour.
Active Discussion/ Interactive Learning Session: This session will start after activities
session of the workshop. In this session, National as well as International Business experts,
successful entrepreneurs and the participants of the workshop will be involved in discussion and
interaction. There will be sharing of ideas and innovations. Moreover, participants will be
quenched for their queries and confusions by the experts and entrepreneurs. With the end of this
session, formal session of the workshop will be wrapped up. The duration of this session will be
about one and half hours.
Networking Session: National and international Business experts, successful entrepreneurs
and the participants of the program will make personal connections in this informal session of
the workshop. They will be allowed to be gathered in different groups according to their will.
They can share their personal information and take information of the others to build relation by
talking with each other.

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Resource persons of the workshop:
Prof. Dr. Christopher Lingle earned a doctorate in economics from
the University of Georgia in 1977. Since then, he has been employed at
universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and USA. Currently,
he is a Visiting Professor of Economics at Universidad Francisco
Marroquín in Guatemala (since 1998), Adjunct Scholar at the Centre for
Independent Studies (Sydney), Research Scholar at the Centre for Civil
Society (New Delhi), and Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Globalization
Institute (Brussels). He is an Expert of International Political Economy at Asian Institute of
Diplomacy and International Affairs (AIDIA), Kathmandu, Nepal.
His previous academic positions include: Visiting Fellow in the Department of Management of
City University in Hong Kong (February to March 2010); Visiting Professor at Institute of
International Studies, Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok (2008 to 2009); Adjunct Professor
of Economics, Georgetown University (July 2004): Visiting Associate Professor of Economics,
Case Western Reserve University (1996-98); Visiting Scholar—Emory University & Adjunct
Professor of Economics—Georgia State University (January 1995 to August 1996); Senior
Fellow, European Studies Program, National University of Singapore (September 1993 to
November 1994); Associate Professor of Economics, Loyola University (New Orleans);
Associate Professor of Economics, Miami University, European Center, Luxembourg and
Oxford, Ohio (1981 to 1984 and 1989 to 1991), Adjunct Professor, Departement de Droit et des
Sciences economiques, Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg (1989-91); Visiting Foreign Expert
in Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (February to May 1987); Lecturer
and Senior Lecturer—University of Natal, South Africa (1984-90); Assistant Professor of
Economics, Auburn University (1978); Assistant Professor of Economics, West Georgia College
(1977).
Dr. Lingle’s research interests are in the areas of Political Economy and International Economics
that focuses on emerging market economies and public policy reform in Europe, East Asia, Latin
America and Southern Africa.

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Mr. Francois Driard is the founder and CEO
of Himalayan French Cheese Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Driard, a
French national, who came to Nepal seven years ago, has
been producing French style cheese first in Tokha, then in
Nuwakot and now in Dhulikhel. He has established the
cheese factory by collaborating with three of his Nepali
friends. He is supplying Himalayan French cheese to the
most of 5 star hotels of Kathmandu as well as to the airlines
that serve his cheeses in their business class. He is now
branching out his cheese factory and starting a second
cheese factory in India.
He has worked as an economic Journalist in France for 10 years and travelled to 30 countries
across the globe after finishing business studies from the universities in Paris and Barcelona.
Mr. Ujjwal Chhapagain is the Managing Director at The
Himalayan Rabbit Farm, the first commercial rabbit farm from July
2012 in Nepal which has demonstrated success example for introducing
rabbit meat into the Nepalese meat market. It has expanded its
production in different districts of Nepal, Rasuwa, Dolakha, Sindhuli,
Myagdi, Nuwakot, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu within less than two years. It
works in collaboration with private entrepreneurs, relevant government
and non-government stakeholders, hotel management colleges etc. He has been working as a
consultant to undergo research and training programs in Value Chain Development, market
feasibility study, assessment of business opportunities, market planning and enterprise
development for Micro-Enterprise Development Program (MEDEP) and its partner
organizations, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) and other organization.
Mr. Chapagain, a graduate of MBA (entrepreneurship) and MSC (Environmental Science) is also
a visiting faculty of Amrit Science College (ASCOL).

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Expected Outcomes:
• Inject the positive mindset about the entrepreneurship.
• Inculcate the desire to take up Entrepreneurship as a Career.
• Provide the information and ideas toolkit to the participants.
• Motivate the participants to start up and encourage others.
• Create avenue for the participants for their ideas.
• Highly interactive environment.
Location and Date:
The workshop will be held in Indreni Complex, Nepal Baneshwor, Kathmandu on 29th
May
2014.
Registration Information and Application Instruction:
If you are interested in attending the workshop or sending your students:
Please complete and return the application form.
Please deposit the fees amount NPR 1200 (Including taxes) by contacting at our office.
Please confirm your booking by not later than 20th
May 2014.
Complete application should be submitted at our counter not later than the 24th
May 2014.
Mindkeys™
Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-01-2299535
Email: mail.mindkeys@gmail.com, info@mindkeys.com.np
www.mindkeys.com.np
NOTE: All applications should be received no later than 24th
May 2014.
The details of the seminar schedule will be sent to the applicants upon receipt of their conformation for
participation.

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Application Form
Name:
Title:
Organization/Affiliation:
Mailing Address:
Telephone: (Mob) (Off.)
Email:
I hereby confirm that above provided details are true.
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(Full signature of the applicant)
Complete application should be submitted no later than 20 May 2014. Space is limited for workshop.
Applicant will be notified regarding the detail schedule of the seminar by 25 May 2014.
Application should be returned to: Mindkeys™
Mid Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-01-2299535
Email: mail.mindkeys@gmail.com, info@mindkeys.com.np