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Enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs: Subnational innovation systems and technological capacity-building policies
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| Author(s):
Trade and Investment Division (TID)
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| Economic Sector(s):
(1) Global, regional and multisectoral economic and social development strategies and policies; (2) National development planning; (3) Public administration and management; (4) Industry policies and planning; (5) Industrial support services; (6) Telecommunications; (7) Information and communication technologies; (8) Information infrastructure; (9) Education system policy, planning and management; (10) Education programmes; (11) Protection of authors’ rights and neighbouring rights; (12) Development and transfer of technology |
| ESCAP Reference
No.: ST/ESCAP/2435 |
| Division/Office:
Trade and Investment |
| Published Date:
20 February 2007 |
| Country:
{Sub-regional Publication} |
| Hard Copy Price:
US$ 99.00
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| Innovative SMEs play a pivotal role in raising the growth potential of national economies. Even more than large firms, SMEs need to access external sources of information, knowledge, know-how and technologies to build their own innovative capability and to reach their markets.
However, most developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region have very fragmented innovation systems and thus their indigenous innovation capacity is very weak. A subnational innovation system (SIS) has been widely recognized as a way to address this issue. A SIS policy focuses on industrial development and enhancing the competitiveness of local enterprises through technology and innovation capacity-building.
As part of a project on SIS and technology capacity-building policies, UNESCAP undertook studies on the SIS policy framework and an SME technology capacity-building strategy and organized a regional consultative meeting to discuss such a policy framework. This publication contains two major studies, a number of best practices, case studies and country papers presented at the meeting, and policy recommendations adopted at the meeting. |
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