T S Srinivasan Chair Professor on Entrepreneurship will play a catalytic role through focused research, teaching, training, consulting, evangelizing and other suitable ways to foster and enrich entrepreneurship in India.

The activities conducted by the Chair would be two-fold: academic research and industry oriented dissemination of the learning by way of teaching, training and management consulting that would symbiotically engender further research and learning. it will also study the strategic Approach, Structure, systems & Processes appropriate for this type of Ventures. Such intense investigation, improvement, and development of appropriate practices and methodologies will help the entrepreneurs as well as the industry in standing out as leaders and scale up in the global arena as successful players.

Study the nature of entrepreneurial businesses - their drivers and critical success factors with a view to evolve new/improved business & management models for such entrepreneurial businesses

Create and study management processes & systems for entrepreneurial businesses to succeed in the global business environment

Conduct study on the leadership and the human resources management styles and practices required by entrepreneurs to succeed

Study / explore the critical trends, challenges, and opportunities for entrepreneurial businesses today and in the future

The results of the research work will be converted into appropriate teaching, training and consulting materials.