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Startup India and a more competitive India
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Amit Kapoor | 27 Jan, 2016
Startups form the basis of a more productive and prosperous nation. The
growth of several countries in the past have been driven by a need for
creating better solutions for existing problems by entrepreneurs. This,
along with secure property rights are major differences between
organised and unorganized societies.
Innovative enterprise
the world over has made nations economically better off and people more
prosperous. The most prominent examples that come to mind are those of
Germany, Israel and the US. The East Asian miracle was also based on
creating local industries that could assemble parts more productively
and at a cost advantage as compared to western countries that lead to
their export competitiveness.
Japan's major companies like
Toshiba, Hitachi, and Toyota were once small enterprises. Even countries
like China have greatly benefitted from the policies envisaged in the
late 1970s in making people more productive and prosperous as mentioned
by Deng Xiaoping in 1984, when he focused on using the forces of
production for economic development - thus ending the decades-old
conception of how society ought to be organised.
The primary
point being driven home in all this is that well-designed policies as
such greatly assist in making a productive people more prosperous. In a
way, the 3Ps of policies, people and productivity lie at the core of
becoming a prosperous nation.
India's earlier economic
development model has rarely focused on developing entrepreneurs as a
strategic resource for national development. The colonial overhang in
the past has meant that India's initial years post independence went
deeply mistrusting private entrepreneurs and enterprises in doing social
good. However, this has resulted in what many people call a "mixed up"
economy rather than a mixed economy. This is where Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's speech at the Startup India launch mentioned the role of
government to stop over-regulating and letting the people themselves
resolve the issues they face.
If one comes to think of it, the
jobs that India requires over the next decade - with a million people
entering the workforce every month - cannot be provided fully by the
formal sector multinationals and government's public sector enterprises
alone. In a way, this presents a sizeable opportunity for India to
capitalise on its demographic dividend. However if India continues with
is older policies, it may very well end up curtailing private sector
development as well as entrepreneurship.
Now, the government
rightly recognises the role of entrepreneurs as job creators and capable
of absorbing the surging workforce in the decade ahead. The startup
plan which has been unveiled before the people has many positives for
unleashing the latent 'Chi' or the creative force of the Indian economy.
These include doing away with certifications, simplification for
opening up a start-up and helping start-ups protect their intellectual
property with procedural help as well as financial assistance.
Apart
from this, other provisions include creating a fund of funds with a
corpus of Rs.10,000 crore (almost $1.5 billion) that has been hailed and
scorned at in equal measure due the to public funds being used as
venture capital.
Other major announcements deal with the removal
of tax for an initial period of three years and further exemption of
capital gains tax for incubators investing in startups. Apart from
these, the other major announcements deal with setting up of seven
research parks and promotion of entrepreneurship in biotechnology.
Taken
together, these are bound to help develop a culture of
entrepreneurship. However, a significant point is looking at structural
issues that hinder entrepreneurship in the Indian context. The
government has done well to draw the attention of youth for pursuing
their dream of entrepreneurship, but deeper societal issues must also be
addressed for optimal outcomes. Over the next 10 years, India's aim
should be to make the ecosystem of enabling entrepreneurship more robust
and making it a more viable career option for individuals wanting to
take the plunge. How this will play out will determine India's ability
to leverage its human resources effectively for economic growth and
competitiveness.
(Amit Kapoor is president and CEO of India
Council on Competitiveness and honorary chairman of the Institute for
Competitiveness, India. The views expressed are personal. He tweets
@kautiliya and can be contacted at amit.kapoor@competitiveness.in)
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Entrepreneurship & Competitiveness
UBP REDDY | Sun Jan 31 00:26:46 2016
India is at a place it has to adopt and encourage entreprenurship in order to support and streamline million people coming out for jobs every month. Its a staggering number! The facilities like HUB in Hyderabad, must be opened for entrepreneurship access where any startup idea is adequately supported in terms of market data, product or idea intelligence. It is not just enough to have a supreme idea, it has to have right mix in order to make to the usage, call it a product or service.
The fundamental requirement for an entrepreneur is knowing-oneness within, and move that spirit with burning desire to tap your own idea or dream into manifestation. That brings you to the real world of competitiveness once you know what you are first. The true realm of competitiveness only stems out once you know who you are-that gives a gap to understand and analyze your competition.
You can only embark on journey of entreprenuership when you have true person talking to you from inside of you - its your internal inner voice of conviction, faith and dedication of that burning desire to be successful.
The youth of India requires to be taught on these fundamental principals, aligning their ideas to market needs and demands.
Are you guys-ready for this?
Startup , what are the policies?
Pankaj H. mali | Thu Jan 28 16:09:34 2016
Sir I want to know more about this startup scheme as I want to start small scale industries of production of onion bags from JUTE material. I need about 30 lacks to start the business . By this industries as located in rural area near about 150 unemployed gets the job . According to my knowledge this scheme helps those new industrialists who gives employment to other people.
Making India more competetive
Prof. Dr. Dewanand Mahadew (The Netherlands) | Thu Jan 28 08:27:57 2016
I think that there is an enormous need in India to educate managers & executives to become more entrepreneurial. The men/women "on the street" are quite entrepreneurial, but the educated employee not. There is a need for competence based executive training program to learn executive to transfer their knowledge into concepts and proposals based on value proposition. There should be more engagement with international markets to capitalize on the available know how, by converting know how into calculated business models. There should be also a shift from products to services and elevation of services from using hands to services based on using brains and concept development e.g. from re-active actions to creactive actions.
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