Entrepreneurship Management
Project Identification
Entrepreneurship Management
Project Identification : Collection, compilation and analysis of
data to locate potential opportunities for starting business and
development of such opportunities
Opportunity is a business concept, which if turned into a
tangible product or service, by the enterprise, will result into
profit. It is all about creating values
The search of a good idea:
Generate your own idea
Develop someone else’s idea
Entrepreneurship Management
Opportunities are identified through innovation/search of
business ideas. Types of innovation:
Additive Innovation – Fully exploiting already existing
resources, such as product lines extensions
Complementary Innovation – Offers something new and
introduces few changes in the structure of the business
Breakthrough Innovation (Radical Innovation) – Changes the
fundamentals of the business, creating a new industry and
new avenues for extensive wealth creation
Entrepreneurship Management
Importance of project identification
It has long term consequences (make or break)
Involves commitment which can not be easily reversed
Ideas are put into action
Projects are catalytic agents for economic development
Involves creative use of resources- manpower, capital, raw
materials etc.
Generates value addition and build-up national capital
Brings socio-cultural development
Leads to development of infra-structure and environment
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Criteria for selecting a project
Investment size
Location of project
Technology to be used
Equipment
Marketing
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Constraints in project formulation
Lack of a viable / feasible project idea
Lack of realistic/ achievable objectives
Lack of necessary resources / infrastructure to convert idea
into reality
Policies of government / Legal restrictions
Lengthy and cumbersome procedures to get finance, start
business