The 23 acres of land occupied by the institute was pledged by the Government of Gujarat.

[4] Its initial aim was to help potential and existing entrepreneurs and then gradually ventured to train trainers and faculty members.

One of the major achievements of the EDII is inducing entrepreneurship in the curriculum of colleges, schools, science and technology institutions, and management schools in several states of the country and also setting up entrepreneurship development centers in 12 states across India.

[5][6] EDII offers a four-year full-time Fellow Program in Management (FPM) course, a two-year PGDM program in Business Entrepreneurship (PGDM-BE), and Development Studies (DS) with the intake of 120 seats in each discipline.

PGDM-BE Program is approved by AICTE and Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Dept.