Second Semester Syllabus on the M.Tech Course on Appropriate Technology and Entrepreneurship

Second Semester Syllabus on the M.Tech Course on Appropriate Technology and Entrepreneurship Practices

Sl.No. Course Course Title L T P Hours/ Credits Code Week 1 ATEP 908 Development Communication 2 0 0 2 2 2 ATEP 909 Managerial and Political Economics 3 0 0 3 3 3 ATEP 910 Project & Financial Management 3 0 1 5 4 4 ATEP 911 ERP Solutions and Knowledge Management 2 0 0 2 2 5 ATEP 912 Appropriate Technologies 3 0 0 3 3 6 ATEP 913 Resource Management 4 0 0 4 4 7 ATEP 914 Enterprise Opportunities / Options 3 0 0 3 3 Total 20 0 1 22 21

ATEP 908 Second Semester Syllabus on 4 Credits DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION INTRODUCTION 1. Concept and relevance of Development Communication 2. The Nature and Component of Development Process

DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION IN 1. Industry 2. Agriculture 3. Health and Sanitation 4. Environment Protection and 5. Socioeconomic Development

THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION 1. Dominant Theory 2. Self Reliance Theory 3. Diffusion Theory 4. Dependent and Inter-dependence theory

BACKGROUND OF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES 1. Social Development 2. Economic Development 3. Political Development 4. Cultural Development 5. Good Governance

ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES IN COMMUNICATION 1. Planning Development Communication Campaign by Government, NGO and UN Agencies

1 Mode of Teaching: Seminar Style of Discussion, Lecture, Assignment and Examination

Reading Lists:

Books: 1. Murthy, D.V.R. Development of Journalism, Dominant Publishers, 2001 2. Naarula, Uma. Development Communication Theory and Practice, Har-Anand Publication Ltd. New Delhi; 1990. 3. Sharma, Suresh Chandra, Media Communication and Development, Rawat Publication, 1987. UNESCO, ‘Different Theories and Practice’, 1982

Journals: 1. Development Communication 2. Communication for Development 3. Communication for Development and Change 4. International Journal of Information Communication and Technologies

2 ATEP 909 Second Semester Syllabus on 3 Credits Managerial and Political Economics

INTRODUCTION: 1. Definition, nature and Scope of Managerial Economics 2. Managerial Economics and Micro-Economics 3. Application of Economics in Managerial decision making 4. Politics of Economic Crisis

TYPES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIRFUTURE GOALS 1. Proprietary Firms 2. Partnership Firms 3. Joint Stock Companies 4. Public Sector Undertakings 5. Cooperative Societies 6. Non-Profit Organization 7. Organizational Goals 8. Profit Maximization

DEMAND ANALYSIS 1. Determinant of Market Demand 2. Law of Demand 3. Elasticity of Demand 4. Measurement of Demands and its use 5. The Techniques of Demand Forecasting 6. Political and Market Solutions to Collective Problems

PRODUCTION AND COSTS 1. Meaning of Production Function 2. Law of Variable Productions 3. Law of Supply and Elasticity of Supply 4. Cost and Cost Functions 5. Short term Cost and their use in Decision Making 6. Determinants of Costs 7. Monetary and Fiscal Policy 8. Breakeven Analysis 9. Cost Forecasting

PRICING AND OUTPUT DETERMINATION

1. Pricing Decision under different Market forms like, perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly

3 2. Pricing Methods 3. Pricing in public Sector undertakings and Cooperative Societies

COST BENEFT ANALYSIS

1. Private vs Public Goods 2. Govt. investment 3. Overall Resource Allocation 4. Steps in Cost benefit analysis 5. Justification of cost benefit analysis

GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS

1. Need for Govt. intervention in the Market 2. Price Control 3. Support prices and Administered Prices 4. Prevention and Control of Monopoly 5. Protection of Consumers’ interest 6. Economic Liberalization 7. Globalization, the Financial Crisis and the Recession 8. Process of Disinvestments 9. Need and Methods 10. Policy Planning as a guide to overall Business Development Reading Lists: Books: 1. Andrew Gillespie, Business Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013 2. Damodaran, Managerial Economics,2nd ed. Oxford University Press.2013 3. Dominick Salvatore, Managerial Economics, 7th ed. Oxford university Press. 2013 4. Keat, Managerial Economics: Economic Tools for Today’s Decision Makers. 6th ed.Pearson, 2012 5. Mark Hirschey, Managerial Economics, 10th ed. Thomson: South Western College Publishing, 2003 6. Petersen/Jain, Managerial Economics, Pearson, 2012. 7. James P. , Caporaso and Devid P.Levine, Theories of Political Economy, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992 8. Peter, A. Gouravich, Politics in Hard Times, Cornell University Press, 1988.

Journals: 1. Journal on Managerial Economics 2. Journal of Managerial Issues 3. Managerial and Decision Economics 4. Cambridge Journal of Economics

4 ATEP 910 Second Semester Syllabus on 4 Credits PROJECT AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION Purpose, life cycle and Uniqueness

PROJECT SELECTION Profitability, Competitive Necessity and Operating Necessity

PROJECT PLANNING 1. Overview: Goals, Scope and the schedule to be followed 2. Background: The reasons for the project and gives some identification of main reasons for initiating the project. 3. Objectives: Detailed statement of the general goals mentioned in the background. 4. Approach: Broadly points at the way in which the project aims to accomplish its objectives 5. Schedule: Various tasks for the preparation of cost effective master schedule. 6. Resources: The task wise budget and aggregated to form the project budget. Other resources, like capital equipment and rented machines are also budgeted and scheduled. 7. Staffing: List of the Personnel requirements (specialized skills/any training to be imparted. 8. Monitoring: Control, Procedures. Various techniques of collecting and evaluating information on project performances including finance. 9. Risk: Plan for unforeseen problems for unanticipated crisis, including anticipated disasters.

ROLE OF PROJECT MANAGERS 1. Responsibility 2. Acquiring Resources 3. Staffing Project 4. Dealing with Obstacles 5. Communication 6. Negotiations 7. Scheduling 8. Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) 9. Networking Techniques

PROBLEMS 1. Human and Mechanical Problems 2. Budgeting 3. Labour unrest etc.

4. PROJECT CONTROL ON 1. Performance, Cost and Time

5 2. Post Performance Control: after completion of the Project 3. Recording of Good and Bad Practices from scheduling to budgeting to control.

Reading lists: Books: 1. Archibald, R.D, Managing High Technology Programmes, New York: John Wiley, 1992 2. Bierman, H. The Capital Budgeting Decision: Economic Analysis of Investment Projects ( 7 th ed.)New York: Macmillan, 1988 3. Kerzner, H. Project Management: A System Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling (9th ed.) . New York: John Wiley, 2005. 4. Meredith, J.R. and S.J.Mantel, Project Management: A Managerial Approach (6th ed). New York: John Wiley, 2005 Journals: 1. Beale, P. and M.Freeman, ‘Successful Project Execution: A Model’, Project Management Journal, December, 1991. 2. Cookie-Davis, T. ‘Return of the Project Manager’, Management Today, May 1990 3. Takeuchi, and I.Nonaka, ’The New Product Development Game,’ Harvard Business Review, January-February, 1986.

6 ATEP 911 Second Semester Syllabus on 3 Credits ERP Solutions and Knowledge Management

INTRODUCTION: 1. ERP Solution and Its Utility 2. Usability 3. Security

MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF ERP: 1. Team Structure: Centralized, Decentralized and Tree Structure 2. Domain Specialized

ERP SOLUTION AND Its UTILITY: 1. ERP Solution in Practice 2. User’s suggestions from Manual to ERP Transformation

IMPLEMENTATION OF ERP: 1. Fragmentation of ERP 2. Types of User with their data accessibility 3. Proposal for more user friendly interface and abilities 4. Configuration 5. Customization 6. Extension 7. Data flow diagram process for different segments

PURPOSES: 1. Advantages & Purposes 2. Disadvantages 3. Benefits

FUTURE PROSPECT OF ERP: 1. Obstacles of ERP 2. Testing and Maintenance of ERP

Reading Lists:

Books: 1. Sheilds, Mureell G., E-Business and ERP, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2001 2. Sheilds, Mureell G., E-Business and ERP: Rapid Implementation and Project Planning. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2001

7 3. Monk, Ellen and Wagner, Brett. Concept s in Enterprise Resource Planning. (3rd ed.) Boston, Massachusetts: Technology Cengage Learning. 2009 4. O’Brien, James. Management Information System (MIS). New York: McGraw Hill, Irwin, 2011. 5. Chang, SI; Guy Gable; Errol Smythe; Greg Timbrell. Thin Enterprise Resource Planning(2nd ed.)Boston: Thomson Course Technology. 2006

Journals: 1. Shaul, L. and Tauber, D. ‘CSFs along ERP life-cycle in SMEs: a field Study. Industrial Management & Data Systems, 112(3), 2012. 2. ______. ‘Critical Success Factors in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Review of the Last Decade’, ACM Computing Surveys, 45(4), 2013. 3. Gill, R. ‘The Rise of two-tier ERP’, Strategic Finance, 93(5), 35-40, 2011 4. Brown, C. and I.Vessey, ‘Managing the Next Wave Enterprise System: Leveraging Lessons from ERP,’MIS Quarterly Executive, (2), 2003 5. King, W. ‘Ensuring ERP Implementation Success’, Information Systems Management, Summer, 2005 6. Thomson H. Davenport, ‘Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System’, Harvard Business Review, July – August, 1998. 7. Vilpola, Inka Heidi. ‘A Method for Improving ERP implementation success by the principles and process o f user – centred design’. Enterprise Information System, 2(1), 2008.

8 ATEP 912 Second Semester Syllabus on 3 Credits APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES

INTRODUCTION 1. Concepts, Background and meaning 2. Movement of Appropriate Technology 3. Practical Implications and Theoretical issues

APPLICATION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES 1. Alternate energy sources: a. Solar energy b. Wind energy c. Bio-fuels d. Bio-gas e. Tidal energy f. Stem energy 2. Disaster Mitigation: a. Earthquake/ Cyclone Resistant housing design with appropriate Materials b. Landslide c. Flood Resistant Habitation d. Fire resistant Houses 3. Water and Sanitation: a. Rain Water Harvesting , Designing Dams and Pipelines b. Appropriate Technique for construction and design of Sanitation c. Sewerage d. Water Recycling e. Solid and Liquid Waste Management

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES TOWARDS RECYCLING OF WASTE MATERIALS a. Glass b. Paper c. Tin d. Wood wastes e. Recycling Units

DOCUMENTATION ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM 1. Regional Specific Technologies and Knowledge 2. Preparation of Human and Material Resources 3. Transfer and Exchange of Appropriate Technologies

9 THE PRODUCTS OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES 1. Demonstration and sale of the Products 2. Development of Appropriate Technology Park 3. Role of Entrepreneurs towards Promotion of Such Products

R & D ON APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND INDEGENOUS KNOWLEDGE 1. Stimulating R&D activities in small organization for rapid dissemination of Technological advances 2. Small Business Innovation Research Programme 3. Small Business Technology Transfer Programme 4. Subsidies for up gradation of small venture 5. Business Incubation

Reading Lists: Books: 1. Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull, Appropriate Technology: Tools Choices and Implications 2. Richard Heeks, Technology and Developing Countries: Practical Applications Theoretical Issues 3. John Pickford, The Worth of Water Technical Briefs on Health, Water and Sanitation, Intermediate Technology Publications, 1998 4. Stevenson, L and A.Lundstrom. Patterns and Trends in Entrepreneurship: SME Policy and Practice in Ten Economies, Orebro, Sweden:The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research 5. Storey, D.J. Understanding the Small Business. London and New York:Routledge, 1994 6. ______, Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Enterprises and Public Policies, Hand Book of Entrepreneurship Research, New York: Springer, 2005

Journals: 1. Knopp, L. ‘State of the Business Incubation’, NBIA, Review, August 2007, 24(4) 2. Duff, A.. ‘ Best Practice in Business Incubator Management’, AUSTEP Strategic Partnering Pty Ltd, 2004 3. Lichtenstein, G.A. ‘The Significance of Relationship in Entrepreneurship in Two Business Incubator.’ Ohio: NBIA Publication., 1992.

10 Second Semester Syllabus on ATEP 913 RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 4 Credits

INTRODUCTION: Definition and the meaning of Resource Management i. Types of Resources ii. Information Resource iii. Functions of Information Resource iv. Importance of Information Resource v. Human Resource vi. Natural Resource vii. Land Resources

RESOURCE INVENTORY: The Preparation of Resource Inventory would be through Participation of the Stakeholders.

RESOURCE TYPING: i. Purpose of Resource Typing ii. Maintenance of Inventory – State/ Local Government level

RESOURCE MAPING: i. Tools, techniques and Methodology ii. Application of Geographical Information System (GIS), Remote-sensing, Global positing System (GPS), and ICT for mapping of Natural Resources.

Reading Lists: Books: 1. Michael, J. Conroy, James T. Peterson. Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: A Structured, Adaptive Approach, Wiley Publication 2. Kohl, Michael, Magnussen. Steen S. Marchetti, Marco. Sampling Methods, Remote Sensing and GIS Multi-resource Forest Inventory, Springer Publication. 3. Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Good Child, David J. Maguire and David W.Rhind, Geographic Information Systems and Science, Wiley Publication 4. Stan Morain. GIS Solutions in Natural Resource Management

Journals: 1. Resource Conservation and Recycling Journal 2. Information Resources Management 3. Resource Management Materials 4. Annual Review of Environment and Resource