Abstract
Women Entrepreneur is one who owns and controls an enterprise having a share capital of not less than 51% as partners/ shareholders/ directors of private limited company / members of co-operative society. The functions performed by a women entrepreneur are categorized as risk bearing, organization and innovation. Women entry into the business is a recent phenomenon. IT is traced out as an extension of kitchen activities to three P’s such as pickles, powder and papads. In the present day women started engrossing to modern activities like engineering, electronics and energy etc. Presently, women entrepreneur’s accounts to about 10% of the total entrepreneur in the country. Efforts are on at the Government and voluntary agencies levels to tap the hitherto unrecogniesed and unaccounted for strength of women to integrate them in the process of industrial development more specially in Small-Scale Industry development in the country. One of the major problems faced by all the entrepreneurs especially the women entrepreneurs is the problem of Finance as well as Technical Know-How. For the discussion, institutional support in the form of finance as well as technical support is considered. District Level Institutions: DIC, KVIC, State Level Institutions: SFC, TCO, SSIDC, SIDC, KVIB, EDI, SISI, SIDBI, National Level Institutions: ICICI, IIC, EDII, KVIC, NABARAD, IDBI, IFCI, IIBI/IRBI/BIFR, Investment Companies: LIC, GIC, UTI and Specialized Financial Institutions: Exim Bank, NABARD. Special Agencies – Institutional finance to Entrepreneurship - Venture Capital and its importance Institutional set up – SFC – SIDC – SIPCOT – TIIC – COMMECIAL BANKS – SIDBI –DIC – SIDO – NSIC – SISI – Industrial Investment Center – KVIC - PIPDIC – NIESBUD – TCO – ITCOT – SIETI – NISIET – SIDCO – EGB – IDBI – IFCI – ICICI – LIC – NAYE – KSSIDC – SSIB – SSIC - SSIDC - SSIB – SENET – IRBI – UTI - EXIM – COSIDICI – SES – PSIDC – IIE – EGB - EDII – NABARD .