National Entrepreneurship Network

National Entrepreneurship Network or NEN^[4] is a community dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. Services focus on providing institutional capacity building, entrepreneur support, entrepreneurial eco-system and national platforms. Based on an idea by Romesh Wadhwani, and co-founded with Sunita Singh, Nilima Rovshen, and Laura Parkin, the goal of the community is to enable new and future entrepreneurs to access events and resources, share ideas and content, organize and market activities, and forge relationships across India and the world. Programs include a variety of supports including competitions.^[5] They are located in Bangalore.

National Entrepreneurship Network(NEN)

Founded	2003
Founder	Romesh Wadhwani,[1] Laura Parkin,[2] Sunita Singh, Nilima Rovshen
Type	Entrepreneurship ecosystem
Focus	Entrepreneurship
Location	Bengaluru & Palo Alto
Origins	India
Area served	Global
Services	Capacity building, inclusive entrepreneurship
Members	over 70,000
Owner	Wadhwani Foundation
Key people	Ajay Kela, Chief Executive Officer[3]
Website	www.wfglobal.org

History of NEN

National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) was launched in 2003, as a non-profit initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation. It was co-founded with IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad, BITS Pilani, SPJIMR Mumbai and IBAB Bengaluru.^[6]

See also

• Business incubator
• Business cluster
• Creative entrepreneurship