[Reader-list] For an Inclusive Start up Policy

[Kabir Khan]

*For an Inclusive Start up Policy
<http://wastenarratives.com/2015/10/15/for-an-inclusive-start-up-policy/>*


‘Start up’ is a buzzword of the day. On Independence Day, from Red Fort,
Prime Minister Modi gave a call for ‘Stand up India, Start up India’.  He
reiterated it in detail during his visit to Silicon Valley. Karnataka
government announced a plan for having ‘Start up Policy’, it will be the
first of its kind in India.


*So much talk about ‘start ups’, but what is a ‘start up’?*


Bibek Debroy, Member of NITI (National Institute for Transformation of
India) Aayog in today’s opinion piece in The Indian Express tried to define
‘start up’, as per his own omission, the definition is ambiguous. According
to him ‘start up’ is a sense of disruption in status quo business
environment; it has a commercial application and most importantly,
‘presence of an entrepreneur and it is an act of entrepreneurship’. With
the given framing the design of ‘start up’ becomes inclusive. Thus, this
definition brings a lot more people in the room, who are not per se college
graduates owning laptops and fluent in English. To be continued here...
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