Yesterday I delivered a speech at BioZing '05. BioZing is an annual event organized by Pracint, the Entrepreneurship cell of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB). Pracinct is a member of National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), which only has five reputed institutions as its member so far. BioZing was taking place alongside Bangalore Bio 2005 at the Palace Grounds. After IT.com, Bangalore Bio has become city's signature business event.
In my speech, I touched upon following broad topics: # "Who is an Entrepreneur?" is a wrong question. What is Entrepreneurship is the right question. # What is Entrepreneurship? # Differentiating between Need-based Entrepreneurship and Opportunity-based Entrepreneurship. # Why is Entrepreneurship important? # Linkages between Entrepreneurship and macro-economy. # What is the process of Entrepreneurship? # The Traits vs Behaviour approaches of looking at Entrepreneurship. # Critical factors for Entrepreneurship [with an emphasis on a) People b) Financing] # Sprinkling of Anecdotes.
I also adjudged the Business Idea competition for the same event. University of Pune students seemed to have an edge when it comes to BioTech ideas!
Overall, it was a nice experience, especially listening to the passionately delivered speech of Ms Shaw on the same topic. The only problem was that my speech was after Ms Shaw's speech and that made the job rather difficult!