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The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) is an autonomous and not-for-profit Institute which was set up in 1983 and is sponsored by apex financial institutions - the IDBI Bank Ltd., IFCI Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd. and State Bank of India (SBI). The Government of Gujarat pledged twenty-three acres of land on which stands the majestic and sprawling EDI campus.

EDI has helped set up twelve state-level exclusive entrepreneurship development centers and institutes. In view of EDI’s expertise in Entrepreneurship, the University Grants Commission appointed the EDI as an expert agency to develop curriculum on Entrepreneurship.

In the international arena, efforts to develop entrepreneurship by way of sharing resources and organising training programmes, has helped EDI earn accolades and support from the World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, UNIDO, ILO, FNSt, British Council, Ford Foundation, European Union and several other renowned agencies.

The Institute has also successfully carried out the prestigious task assigned by the Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India, to set up Entrepreneurship Development Centres in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. The Institute is presently working towards creating ED Centres in Uzbekistan & Kazhakistan.

After successfully working on entrepreneurial awareness and development in India and abroad, EDI now is planning to expand its horizon on the internet through its interactive blog ‘Budding Entrepreneurs’.

Through this blog, our well resourced faculties will be discussing important entrepreneurial aspects with rest of the academic fraternity as well as with students who are aspiring to study at EDI. Hope that everyone who visits our blog will get enriching information about developing the entrepreneur residing within each one of us and help them start their own enterprise.