Entrepreneurship summit: during the release of special publication on 101 successful entrepreneurs of Tamil Nadu, in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu unit of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Friday launched a compendium of success stories by first generation entrepreneurs across the State.

The publication listing 101 successful entrepreneurs was launched in English and Tamil at an entrepreneurship summit that served as the final act to a CII campaign to organise zonal level interfaces between local entrepreneurs and college students.

The initiative of the CII Task Force on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship also focussed on the role of small and medium enterprises as major job providers in future and the dissemination of the success stories of first generation entrepreneurs.

Universities are the places where the seeds of entrepreneurship are sown, he pointed out. K. Subburaj, chairman, Cethar Vessels, said entrepreneurship was often the product of pressing circumstances, impoverishment or the pressure to up performance.

His experience in making the company the fourth largest boiler manufacturing unit in the world had taught him the importance of reviewing strategy at all times, even when the profits are pouring in.