Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Study on Factors Affecting Engineering Graduates towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Abstract

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs are very important for developing countries like India. United States which has entrepreneurship education in schooling has produced great entrepreneurs education is introduced at higher level education in India. Introduction of entrepreneurship education in to engineering colleges to engineering graduates has been happening from few years. In this study an effort has been made to identify different factors which are making an impact on the student towards entrepreneurship and innovation. This paper deals with measuring the innovative pedagogy in teaching entrepreneurship to engineering graduates and an attempt is made to identify the different ways to encourage innovation.