Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship - സംരംഭം - സംരംഭകർ
Entrepreneurship is growth from job-seeker to job-provider or job-creator! It's almost like becoming God! Creator! Creation!!
Entrepreneur is a chronic optimist - seeing an opportunity in every crisis! Natural - it involves risk taking - treading the unfamiliar tracks - euphemistically, innovation - thinking out of the box!
I met Kunjumon last week - who has literally found 'wealth' in 'waste'. Kunjumon manages ten tonnes of waste everyday in his backyard. The plot is 10 cents with a two storey building of around 2000 square feet. Waste is collected from restaurants and tea-shops from Aroor to Cherthala and beyond. He employs around 15 people - five of them for sorting the collected waste being paid Rs. 5000 to 6000 per month, and others involved in collecting waste door to door, are paid between Rs. 13000 to 15000 per month. Isn't that wonderful? He collects a fee from each of the shop-owners, based on the type & quantity of waste to be managed. His family dwells on the plot, as there is no foul smell, in spite of ten tonnes of waste being dumped in the compound everyday. He makes use of a medium prepared by an agency based in Coimbatore. The product is a marketable manure; and other segregated wastes - generally non-biodegradable and recyclable - are being sold for a price not unattractive! From a series of entrepreneurial failures, Kunjumon appears to have found his niche, and is keen to share his energy and experience with similar situations. He is brimming with confidence.
I hope the year will see the ED Cell rise and grow beyond the boundaries of commerce department as a creative and innovative force. Where even craziest of ideas can be presented, experimented!
An increasingly significant area for innovation and entrepreneurship is that of agriculture.
The collective efforts of Dr. Mathew Jose, faculty team of Commerce and the student leadership with Alwin at the head is really something inspirational!
Aug. 29 Friday, 2014
After more than a year - another meeting with 'Entrepreneurship Club'. Yes, Beena Kannan was here - can be called an icon among the women entrepreneurs of Keralam, leading an organisation more than a century old - boldly, beautifully and from front. She is someone who can be looked up to by the students - as someone who also maintains diverse interests, and finds time to pursue such areas like 'dance' in spite of being a very busy entrepreneur, and in spite of what normally can be termed 'age'!
It is good that we have E-club! The efforts of Dr. Mathew Jose and some youngsters, mostly, from Commerce department have to be appreciated. To be frank, I am not satisfied with the club! The club is there - but it has not been able to break free into the realm of entrepreneurship. It has the inauguration, one payasam mela, and a couple of sales fete! Sometimes, we call it ED club! Entrepreneurship Development Club! However, that D is yet to be brought to life! 'Develop Entrepreneurship'!
A heartening initiative in this direction, perhaps, is the initiative from the part of the NSS unit, with Abi and team in the lead - a la 'How Old Are You' - a vegetable garden. However, I am not very optimistic - for it's over a month, and not even a single stroke has been made by a spade.
I invite the students to think made and bring out their ideas - innovative, mad, crazy - share them! They may lead to some development.
It is also important that we think of entrepreneurship in terms of 'social good' as well. While every entrepreneurship could have this dimension, there is the new stress on 'social entrepreneurship', entrepreneurship with social good in the focus. Perhaps, plan@earth by former Rajagirian Sooraj is one such. Where waste management is happening while the disposer of waste has a monetary benefits, the collector has entrepreneurial benefits, and above all, the waste is disposed. In the process, there is possibility of a community, and students getting benefitted.
Feb. 12, 2016 Friday
Botany department has really made use of the provisions of autonomy in re-inventing themselves, especially with focus on skill development that can lead to entrepreneurship, in other words a growth from job seekers to job makers. This is very much in tune with our Modiji's campaign of 'make in India'. The song was about 'ek dil chahiye that's made in India'. Now we need a dil which wants to make in India. So that we can really START UP, and STAND UP.
My request to all the departments and students is to START UP SH, STAND UP SH!
For this the beginning is IDEA - an idea that starts off from your class rooms & labs to your land and your kitchen (where there is no land, your balcony or your terrace - assuming they are there!). Thus we have the terrace productions, the mushroom cropping, the bee-hives etc. The next step would be to SUSTAIN them. That requires a different set of skill. The third step lies in PACKAGING and PRESENTING in the right time, right manner. And next you could further extend the IDEA - that we call DIVERSIFYING. Thus from a very ordinary cheap soap powder, NIRMA has gone into other allied products of laundry, and they have clicked.
I appreciate the efforts of Botany department - this is a REVOLUTIONARY STANCE, and I hope this will be an EPOCH making shift.
Entrepreneurship - സംരംഭം - സംരംഭകർ
Entrepreneurship is growth from job-seeker to job-provider or job-creator! It's almost like becoming God! Creator! Creation!!
Entrepreneur is a chronic optimist - seeing an opportunity in every crisis! Natural - it involves risk taking - treading the unfamiliar tracks - euphemistically, innovation - thinking out of the box!
I met Kunjumon last week - who has literally found 'wealth' in 'waste'. Kunjumon manages ten tonnes of waste everyday in his backyard. The plot is 10 cents with a two storey building of around 2000 square feet. Waste is collected from restaurants and tea-shops from Aroor to Cherthala and beyond. He employs around 15 people - five of them for sorting the collected waste being paid Rs. 5000 to 6000 per month, and others involved in collecting waste door to door, are paid between Rs. 13000 to 15000 per month. Isn't that wonderful? He collects a fee from each of the shop-owners, based on the type & quantity of waste to be managed. His family dwells on the plot, as there is no foul smell, in spite of ten tonnes of waste being dumped in the compound everyday. He makes use of a medium prepared by an agency based in Coimbatore. The product is a marketable manure; and other segregated wastes - generally non-biodegradable and recyclable - are being sold for a price not unattractive! From a series of entrepreneurial failures, Kunjumon appears to have found his niche, and is keen to share his energy and experience with similar situations. He is brimming with confidence.
I hope the year will see the ED Cell rise and grow beyond the boundaries of commerce department as a creative and innovative force. Where even craziest of ideas can be presented, experimented!
An increasingly significant area for innovation and entrepreneurship is that of agriculture.
The collective efforts of Dr. Mathew Jose, faculty team of Commerce and the student leadership with Alwin at the head is really something inspirational!
Aug. 29 Friday, 2014
After more than a year - another meeting with 'Entrepreneurship Club'. Yes, Beena Kannan was here - can be called an icon among the women entrepreneurs of Keralam, leading an organisation more than a century old - boldly, beautifully and from front. She is someone who can be looked up to by the students - as someone who also maintains diverse interests, and finds time to pursue such areas like 'dance' in spite of being a very busy entrepreneur, and in spite of what normally can be termed 'age'!
It is good that we have E-club! The efforts of Dr. Mathew Jose and some youngsters, mostly, from Commerce department have to be appreciated. To be frank, I am not satisfied with the club! The club is there - but it has not been able to break free into the realm of entrepreneurship. It has the inauguration, one payasam mela, and a couple of sales fete! Sometimes, we call it ED club! Entrepreneurship Development Club! However, that D is yet to be brought to life! 'Develop Entrepreneurship'!
A heartening initiative in this direction, perhaps, is the initiative from the part of the NSS unit, with Abi and team in the lead - a la 'How Old Are You' - a vegetable garden. However, I am not very optimistic - for it's over a month, and not even a single stroke has been made by a spade.
I invite the students to think made and bring out their ideas - innovative, mad, crazy - share them! They may lead to some development.
It is also important that we think of entrepreneurship in terms of 'social good' as well. While every entrepreneurship could have this dimension, there is the new stress on 'social entrepreneurship', entrepreneurship with social good in the focus. Perhaps, plan@earth by former Rajagirian Sooraj is one such. Where waste management is happening while the disposer of waste has a monetary benefits, the collector has entrepreneurial benefits, and above all, the waste is disposed. In the process, there is possibility of a community, and students getting benefitted.
Feb. 12, 2016 Friday
Botany department has really made use of the provisions of autonomy in re-inventing themselves, especially with focus on skill development that can lead to entrepreneurship, in other words a growth from job seekers to job makers. This is very much in tune with our Modiji's campaign of 'make in India'. The song was about 'ek dil chahiye that's made in India'. Now we need a dil which wants to make in India. So that we can really START UP, and STAND UP.
My request to all the departments and students is to START UP SH, STAND UP SH!
For this the beginning is IDEA - an idea that starts off from your class rooms & labs to your land and your kitchen (where there is no land, your balcony or your terrace - assuming they are there!). Thus we have the terrace productions, the mushroom cropping, the bee-hives etc. The next step would be to SUSTAIN them. That requires a different set of skill. The third step lies in PACKAGING and PRESENTING in the right time, right manner. And next you could further extend the IDEA - that we call DIVERSIFYING. Thus from a very ordinary cheap soap powder, NIRMA has gone into other allied products of laundry, and they have clicked.
I appreciate the efforts of Botany department - this is a REVOLUTIONARY STANCE, and I hope this will be an EPOCH making shift.
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