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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Vijay Mallya and Vijay Kirloskar are among the industry leaders who have joined hands with NEN (National Entrepreneurship Network) to support the development of entrepreneurship educators in India, through faculty fellowships.

NEN, founded in 2002 as a not-for-profit initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation, works ‘to inspire, educate and support the next generation of high-growth entrepreneurs in India,’ as informs www.nenonline.org. The fellowship programme invites donors (leaders from industry and the entrepreneurial community) to invest in faculty development by funding faculty leaders of the NEN member institutes that participate in the NEN-Stanford Technology Ventures EEC (Entrepreneurship Educators Course) programme.

“Co-developed and taught by Stanford faculty and leading Indian and international entrepreneurship faculty, the course is designed to help Indian faculty become world-class entrepreneurship educators,” says NEN’s press release, about EEC, ‘the only course for entrepreneurship educators in Asia’.

NEN does not charge any fees to the faculty or institutes for the course, but the costs of travel, lodging and transport can add up to over Rs 1,00,000 per faculty member over the course of the year, states the release. The fellowship programme is designed to meet these costs.