A Study on Entrepreneurship Skills Among Entrepreneurs –With Special Reference to Coimbatore District

Abstract

This study will helps to identify the entrepreneurial skills among entrepreneurs in Coimbatore District. India is one of the countries, which have accorded high priority to entrepreneurship development. The communities, which have mainly provided entrepreneurs to our country, are parsis, Gujaratis and Marwaris. The word entrepreneur is derived from the French word, Entrepreneur which means a person who undertakes the task of bringing together various resources and manage them to achieve desired results and take some share. To objectives of the studies are To identify the socio-economic background of the selected entrepreneurs, to analyse the entrepreneurial skills among entrepreneurs, to identify the problems faced by entrepreneurs and to examine the attitude towards enterprise through variables. For this purpose there are 531 respondents were taken

for this study. Convenient sampling method adopted for this study. It is found that Majority of the e-entrepreneurs (78.00%) belong to the age group up to 40 years. Majority of the e-entrepreneurs 315

(59.30%) are male. Regarding marital status, majority of the e-entrepreneurs (96.90%) are married. This study concluded that It has been possible, to a large extent, to identify the factors that ultimately distinguished between good performer and poor performer of entrepreneurship. The findings of the study though confined to a small geographical area have wider relevance to entrepreneurship.