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The Power of Ideas, an initiative by The Economic Times, is India's largest entrepreneurship development programme. Begun in 2009, it attracted over 12,000 business ideas in its first year followed by another 16,000 plus the following year. Now in its third year in 2012, the programme sees ET partnering with the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India and IIM-Ahmedabad's Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) in creating a favourable ecosystem for start-ups in the country.