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ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Dhanya MB

ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Dhanya MB

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Role of Educational institutions in creating a New Ecosystem to flourish Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Case of ‘Startups’ in India

 

Dr. Dhanya MB

Associate Fellow, VV Giri National Labour Institute, Noida

 

About the Speaker: Dr Dhanya MB is an economist and working as Associate Fellow (Faculty) at VV Giri National Labour Institute. She is the Associate Coordinator of the Centre for Labour Market Studies. She has been involved in policy initiatives of the Ministry of Labour and employment, Government of India on various subjects on labour & Employment.She has authored three books/monographs and also coedited two books in the area of Labour Market studies, includes: ‘Demographic Dividend and SDGs in India: Labour and Employment Opportunities’ (Routledge, 2020 forthcoming); ‘Quality Employment Generation in Micro and Small enterprises (MSEs) in India: strategies and way forward’ (2018);‘Worker’s Rights and Practices in the Contemporary Scenario: an overview’ (2014); ‘Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and informal economy in India’ (2013);‘Engendering Gender Statistics’ (2012); published by VVGNLI. Currently, she is working on a research project on ‘Promoting Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship: A Study with special focus on ‘Startups’.

 

Abstract:  The role academia plays in fostering entrepreneurial intention is the popular way to augment overall economic activity and the process of discovery. Entrepreneurial university model is a technique to attract individuals with ideas and give them the needful entrepreneurial and managerial skills in the new socio-economic landscape. This exploratory research study analyses the role of some prominent universities/institutes of Delhi in nurturing future young entrepreneurs and it also discusses the startups ecosystem jointly run across India which is having student-faculty collaboration. This work envisaged investigation among 48 startups samples in the different part of Delhi-NCR region. The presentation begin with the analysis of youth employment situation to set the context for the current situational analysis in India and then the discussion would be on the role of universities in creating a new ecosystem to flourish entrepreneurship & innovation and the current policies surrounding startups and how the government policies are geared towards creating an environment in which startups flourish and contribute to the growth of youth employment generation opportunities.

 

DATE: 26th February, 2020 (Wednesday)
TIME: 3:00 pm
Room No. 207, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES II


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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.