Small and Medium Enterprises
Technology policies and options
Technological issues and options facing small/medium enterprises in urban and rural settings in developing and advanced countries. Covers policies, programmes, institutions and the infrastructure that affect small businesses.
Published: 1992
Pages: 296
eBook: 9781780445861
Paperback: 9781853391293
| Foreword ix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sergio C. Trindade, Executive Director, United | |||
| Nations Centre for Science and Technology for | |||
| Development (UNCSTD) | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| A. S. Bhalla | |||
| Part I: Favorable Policies and Programs 13 | |||
| 1. Centralized versus Decentralized Policy Toward | |||
| Small and Medium Enterprises 17 | |||
| John Marcum | |||
| 2. Technological Policy for Small and Medium | |||
| Enterprises: The Canadian Experience 29 | |||
| Paul Dufour | |||
| 3. Technology Policy for Small and Medium | |||
| Enterprises in The Netherlands 47 | |||
| Walter Zegveld | |||
| 4. Technological Transformation of Small and | |||
| Medium Enterprises in China 55 | |||
| Guan Ze-wen et al. | |||
| 5. Technology Promotion Programs for Small | |||
| Enterprises: The Philippine Experience 67 | |||
| Quintin G. Tan | |||
| vi Contents | |||
| Part II: Building Technological Capabilities 79 | |||
| 6. Innovations and Small Producers in Developing | |||
| Countries 83 | |||
| A. S. Bhalla | |||
| 7. Building Indigenous Technological Capability | |||
| Through Foreign Assistance to Small/Medium | |||
| Enterprises 101 | |||
| J. M. Hekland | |||
| 8. A New Approach to Innovation in Traditional | |||
| Industries: The Italian Experience 109 | |||
| Danielle Mazzonis and Mario Pianta | |||
| 9. Building Technological Capability of Finnish Small | |||
| Industry Through Risk-financing 127 | |||
| Veikko O. Vuorikari | |||
| 10. Technological Transformation of Small Enterprises | |||
| in Zhejiang Province, China 139 | |||
| Wu Tianzu | |||
| 11. Technological Characteristics and Change in Small | |||
| Industrial Enterprises in Guangdong Province, | |||
| China 153 | |||
| Guan Ze-wen et al. | |||
| 12. Management and Technological Capabilities of | |||
| Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises: | |||
| Constraints and Potential 167 | |||
| Ahmad Zahdi Bin Jamil and Rahimah Bt. Md. Said | |||
| 13. Development of Design and Manufacturing | |||
| Capabilities in a Small Nigerian Company 175 | |||
| Sam Chukwujekwu | |||
| Part III: Institutions and Infrastructure 183 | |||
| 14. Nurturing Microenterprises and Technological | |||
| Innovation through Business Incubation Process 187 | |||
| Rustam Lalkaka and Hu Ping | |||
| 15. Institutions for Promoting Technological | |||
| Modernization of Indian Small Enterprises 203 | |||
| C. V: S. Ratnam | |||
| 16. Technical and Managerial Extension Services for | |||
| Korean Small and Medium Enterprises 213 | |||
| Kyung Tae Lee | |||
| Contents vii | |||
| 17. Cooperation between Research and Educational | |||
| Institutions and Small Enterprises in China 221 | |||
| Cai Liyi | |||
| 18. Infrastructural Requirements of Information | |||
| Technology and Small and Medium Enterprises 233 | |||
| Karl Ganzhorn | |||
| The Seminar Report 247 | |||
| Select Bibliography 271 | |||
| Index 275 | |||
| Notes on the Contributors 283 |
A S Bhalla A S Bhalla is Chief of the Employment Strategies Branch, International Labour Office, Geneva. Previously he was Chief, Technology and Employment Branch, ILO; Hallsworth Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom; visiting Research Associate at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University; Research Officer at the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University; and University Tutorial Fellow at the University of Delhi.
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