entrepreneurship
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Assignment Book of New Enterprise and Innovation Management
MBA (Sem-3)
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Module :1
1. Compare entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and traditional managers in view of motives,
time horizon, risk, status, attitudes toward failure and mistakes, decision making and
various aspects of personal and professional life.
2. Describe in details unique aspects of entrepreneurial feelings with respect to Locus of
control, risk taking, independence and needs of achievement.
3. Describe major factors – economic, political, cultural, and technological – which
Indian entrepreneurs need to be concerned with when thinking of international
pursuits. In view of this comment on strategy issues especially with respect to
relationship between headquarter and the foreign operations of an Indian business.
4. Which mode is considered as the finest way to enter for International Business?
Explain in detail.
5. What is Intrapreneurial Mind? List out the characteristics of Intrapreneurial
Leadership.
6. Discuss the role of entrepreneur in the economic development of any country.
7. Discuss the concept of Enterprise, Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship. Elaborate on
the role of entrepreneurship in the economic development at the regional level and
at the National level giving suitable examples
8. Describe criteria for evaluation of an opportunity from viewpoint of markets,
competition, financial needs, synergies with existing company products and
processes etc.
9. Describe what is involved at various stages during product life cycle including the
idea stage, concept stage, product development stage, test marketing stage and
commercialization. Add comments on how marketing considerations play out at
various stages of product life cycle.
10. Discuss the Entrepreneurial Process and Scope of Entrepreneurship.
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Module:2
1. Elaborate the Venture Capital Process.
2. Explicate the Importance and Process of Business Plan.
3. How do Potential Leaders and Investors Evaluate the Plan? What Information’s are
needed for Business Plan?
4. What is Business Plan? Give detailed Outline of a business plan.
5. What is feasibility analysis? Discuss various aspects of financial feasibility analysis.
6. Discuss the major components of a Detailed Project Report / Business Plan giving
suitable examples. Explain the importance of each major component.
7. Discuss the various sources of short term and long term finance.
8. Discuss the various precautions that an entrepreneur needs to take while preparing a
9. Detailed Project Report. Also discuss where a project report fails giving suitable
examples.
10. What is a business plan, who should write a business plan, what is the scope and
value of a business plan, and what a decent business plan should contain (describe
all information needs) for investors to consider it favorably.
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Module:3
1. Describe at least four major incentives provided by Gujarat government through its
current industrial policy.
2. Explain Important Schemes for SSI (Small Scale Industries). Explain Incentives for SSI
(Small Scale Industries).
3. Given that the importance of SSIs has been recognized, a strong Institutional support
is must. Elaborate, highlighting the various Institutional support for non financial aid
available to SSIs in India.
4. Write a note on Capacity Building for Entrepreneurs and the role of EDII .
5. The Government appreciates the need for the development of SSIs and hence has set
up various Institutions / bodies for financial support. Elaborate, highlighting the
various financial support, incentives and benefits extended to SSIs in India.
6. Write a short note on “Private Limited” form of business.
7. What is SSI? Explain Prerequisite for starting a SSI Unit.
8. Discuss VAT (Value Added Tax), CST (Central Sales Tax), GST (Good & Services Tax).
Explain Advantage and Disadvantage of VAT.
9. Explain the Process of Buying a Business and also Advantage and Disadvantage of
Buying a Business.
10. Give Types of franchises. Explain, Why are you Investing and Not Investing in
franchise?
11. Describe what is franchising, as also the advantages and disadvantages from both
franchise and franchisor view points. Add comments on factors to be assessed by an
entrepreneur before deciding to take on a franchise.
12. What is Franchise? Explicate Merger, Acquisition, and Joint Venture.
13. Give brief account about buying a running business and explain its process.
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Module:4
1. Explain the Growth Strategy and Discuss the Types of Growth Strategy.
2. Meaning of Strategic Alliances? with advantages and disadvantages.
3. Explain why innovation is more than an idea or an invention. Also describe various
types of innovations (hint – consider different activities within a company which offer
scope for innovation) citing examples (preferably from India) for each type of
innovation.
4. Successful R&D requires a longer term view. Please describe various approaches
used to set R&D budgets.
5. Taking Porter’s industry attractiveness framework, explain how the State (Nation) can
facilitate innovation.
6. Discuss Penetration strategy, Market development strategy, product development
strategy and Diversification strategy with real life examples.
7. Elaborate on what organizational culture must prevail in organizations in order to
support Innovation. Give suitable examples.
8. Discuss the difference between and the meaning of invention and innovation. Detail
any two Innovations that you know of and elaborate on how have these innovations
helped/ can help the society in specific and the economic development of the local
region / country, in general.
9. Discuss what you understand by Innovation and what is the role of Innovation in
10. Successful entrepreneurship during various stages of the enterprise’s business life
cycle. Discuss quoting suitable examples.
11. Discuss ONE example for each of the following with the name of the organization
which has conducted it and a brief explanation of the innovation done/made.
i) Product Innovation
ii) Process Innovation
iii) Management Innovation
iv) Organizational Innovation
v) Marketing / Commercial Innovation
vi) Production Innovation
vii) Service Innovation
viii) Technological Innovation
12. Give reasons and guidelines of selling business.
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