Assignment Book of New Enterprise and Innovation Management

MBA (Sem-3)

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2012-13

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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 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. Intrapreneurial

By: Ms.Riddhi Patel

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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 Informations 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.

By: Ms.Riddhi Patel

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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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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 Porters 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 enterprises 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) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) vii) viii) Product Innovation Process Innovation Management Innovation Organizational Innovation Marketing / Commercial Innovation Production Innovation Service Innovation Technological Innovation

12. Give reasons and guidelines of selling business.

By: Ms.Riddhi Patel

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