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TATA

National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)

NEN Chennai Entrepreneurship Cells

TATA

Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, Tata has now grown to be one of India's biggest and most respected business organisations, thanks to its entrepreneurial vision, its commitment to ideals that put people before profits, and its fortitude in the face of adversity.

The Tata group comprises over 90 operating companies in seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. Each Tata company operates Independently in its respective businesses. The group has operations in more than 80 countries across six continents, and its companies export products and services to 85 countries.

Tata companies have always believed in returning wealth to the society they serve. Two-thirds of the equity of Tata Sons, the Tata promoter company, is held by philanthropic trusts that have created national institutions for science and technology, medical research, social studies and the performing arts. The trusts also provide aid and assistance to NGOs working in the areas of education, healthcare and livelihoods. The combined development-related expenditure of the trusts and the companies amounts to around 4 per cent of the net profits of all the Tata companies taken together.

Reinforcing the implicit beliefs the group brings to its mission of sustainable development is an explicit set of structures, embodied most notably by the Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI). The Council has, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (India), crafted the Tata Index for Sustainable Human Development, which measures and improves the community work that Tata enterprises undertake.

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National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)

Established in 2003, NEN's mission is to inspire and support India's next high-potential entrepreneurs, with the ultimate goal of driving innovation and job-creation. Co-founded by the Wadhwani Foundation, IIT-Bombay, IIM-Ahmedabad, BITS Pilani, SP Jain and IBAB, NEN partners with top academic institutes to help them build comprehensive and effective entrepreneurship programs that inspire, develop and support new and future high-potential entrepreneurs.

In addition, the NEN Trust runs national programs that support high-potential entrepreneurs as they launch and grow their ventures.

Over the past two years, a rapidly increasing number of NEN graduates are starting ventures; gratifyingly, many address India's core challenges in health care, sanitation, education, and power. NEN has responded by establishing new programs to support these young entrepreneurs, including NEN E Club and a National Mentor Platform.

Today, NEN has more than 540 top academic institutional members, over 400 student and alumni entrepreneurship clubs, and more than 80,000 individual members across India. NEN represents Asia's largest and most dynamic community of young and future entrepreneurs.

NEN was founded by the Wadhwani Foundation. Launched in 2000, the Wadhwani Foundation is the philanthropic foundation of Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, a Silicon Valley, California based entrepreneur with a B Tech from IIT Bombay and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. The Foundation has been established with a mission to accelerate economic growth in India and other emerging economies by launching and supporting high-impact initiatives across the higher education spectrum involving skill development, entrepreneurship, and innovation. The foundation works in partnership with other NGO's, Foundations and government agencies to launch and implement its initiatives at scale.

NEN Chennai Entrepreneurship Cells

The E Leaders from the Chennai Entrepreneurship Cells pioneered the concept of First Dot in 2011; the team with active engagement and guidance from the NEN Trust team lead the program on the ground with passion and put up a stellar event in January 2011. The next generation of leaders under the continuing leadership of some of the founding team, pledges to do even better in 2012.

To learn more about the 2011 pioneering E Leaders team that came from over 15 Chennai E Cells, please click here.

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