Women Entrepreneurship in Kerala-A Comparative Study with Tamil Nadu

Abstract

It is a well established fact that the economic development of a country is generally equated with its industrial development. It is the entrepreneur who stands at the centre of the industrial activity and assumes various roles of a country’s development process. Large, medium and small industrial units play a mutually complementary role in the integrated and harmonious growth of industrial sector as a whole. However, small enterprises outnumber the larger ones in every country and play a vital role in the process of industrialisation by contributing significantly to production and exports. As the pace of innovation accelerates, small scale sector will provide new opportunities to entrepreneurs to grow. Again, this sector is widely recognised as a valuable foundation in fostering economic growth. Thus, entrepreneurship has now become an important focal point in the third world countries. Any strategy aimed at economic development will be lopsided without involving the women folk who constitute half of the world population. Evidence has unequivocally established that entrepreneurial spirit is not a male prerogative.

Keywords

Foreign direct investment

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