International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Pooja V, J Tulasiram, SB Goudappa, Sidram BY, Vijaya B Wali and Shivanand Kammar

abstract
In Modern era, women regarded as agent of economic, social growth and transformation. In India, 20.37 percent of women are Medium Small and Micro enterprise owners which account for 23.30 percent of the labor force. Association of women entrepreneurs of Karnataka (AWAKE) is the NGO in Karnataka exclusively working towards promotion of women entrepreneurs. Hence, NGO was purposefully selected. The respondents were selected by simple random sampling method and sample size was 60. An ex-post-facto research was carried out to know the entrepreneurial behaviour of trained women entrepreneurs in Karnataka. Using interview schedule data was collected from respondents. The results revealed that, less than half (43.33%) of the trained women entrepreneurs had medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour followed by high (35.00%) and low (21.67%). The entrepreneurial behaviour was studies under 10 components. among which most of the components like knowledge about the enterprise, information seeking behaviour, innovativeness, entrepreneurial coordinating ability, achievement motivation and cosmopoliteness. Majority of trained women had medium level of expertise. High in case of risk-taking, decision-making and leadership ability. It can be concluded that, the trained women by AWAKE NGO had medium to high level of entrepreneurial behaviour.