Transforming Kerala-Role of University in Building Entrepreneurship

Abstract

In spite of the high material quality-of-life indicators on par with some of the developed nations, Kerala's industrial climate has been stagnating for the past several years. There is a significant rise in the number of students graduating from the state's technical institutions. It is high time, that earnest efforts are made to bring to practice the old dictum that "Engineers should not be job seekers, but job providers". There is an urgent need to create an ecosystem that will empower and enable the young engineers to pursue their entrepreneurship dreams and base their own start-up ventures within the state. This paper presents the start-up policy of Government of Kerala and APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU). A few models to implement these changes in the society are also presented.