Business Development Services
A review of international experience
This book provides a wide review of experience of donor agencies in designing and implementing business development services for small and medium enterprises (SME). The papers, from the International Conference on Business Development Services, presented in this book assess the performance of the development services operating within the various developing countries.They explore new and innovative approaches to achieving sustainable BDS services and ways of achieving greater cost-effectiveness in their delivery.
Published: 2000
Pages: 336
eBook: 9781780442808
Paperback: 9781853395062
| Preface | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contributors | |||
| List of Acronyms | |||
| PART I, INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND | |||
| 1. Summary report | |||
| JACOB LEVITSKY | |||
| 2. The emerging strategy for building BDS markets | |||
| WILLIAM STEEL, JIM TANBURN AND KRIS HALIBERG | |||
| PART II, ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES | |||
| 3. The case of CEFE - a new look at entrepreneurship | |||
| RAINER KOI.SHORN AND UWE WEIHERT | |||
| PART III, INTEGRATED SME CAPACITY BUILDING | |||
| 4. The EMPRETEC Ghana Foundation | |||
| ALAN GIBSON | |||
| 5. Development projects: a partnership experience in Chile | |||
| .I.M. BENAVENTE | |||
| 6. High-impact, cost-effective BDS through NGOs | |||
| KENNETH E. LOUCKS | |||
| 7. Comparing two west African BDS experiences | |||
| MICHEL BOTZUNG | |||
| PART IV, BUSINESS CENTRES | |||
| 8. Swiss contact: business centre approach in Indonesia and the Philippines | |||
| ALAN GIBSON AND ROBERT HITCHINS | |||
| 9. Enterprise development centres in Latin America | |||
| ANTONIO GARCIA TABUIENCA AND JUAN JOSE LLISTERRI | |||
| 10. The operation of three Romanian Business Centres | |||
| RICHARD M. KENNEDY, PIHILIPPE SCHOLTES AND CASPER SONESSON | |||
| PART V, ADVISORY SERVICES | |||
| 11. Enterprise support services for Africa project | |||
| MARY M. LYNCH AND KWAME YOUNG-GYAMPO | |||
| PART VI, TRAINING AND COUNSELLING | |||
| 12. Kenya Voucher Programme for training and BDS | |||
| THYRA A. RILEY AND WII.LIAM F. STI:EL | |||
| 13. Matching grant schemes | |||
| DANIEL CRISAFULU | |||
| PART VII, BUSINESS LINKAGES | |||
| 14. Business linkages in Zimbabwe: the Manicaland Project | |||
| JOHN GRIERSON, DONALD C. MEAD AND EDWARD KAKORE | |||
| 15. Global experience in industrial subcontracting and partnerships | |||
| ANDRE. DE. CROMBRUGGHE. AND .I. C. MONTES | |||
| 16. Clusters and network development in developing countries | |||
| GIOVANNA CEGLIE AND MARCO DINI | |||
| PART VIII, BUSINESS INCUBATORS | |||
| 17. Nurturing entrepreneurs: incubators in Brazil | |||
| RUSTAM LALKAKA AN/J DANIEL SHAFFER | |||
| 18. Russia: the Volkhov International Business Incubator | |||
| IDA F:S. SCHMERTZ | |||
| PART IX, MARKETING | |||
| 19. AMKA, Tanzania: Export marketing development services | |||
| ALAN GIBSON ANn LEON TOMESEN | |||
| 20. Marketing micro and small enterprise in Latin America | |||
| LENE MIKKELSEN | |||
| PART X, TECHNOLOGY | |||
| 21. Business development and technology improvement services in India | |||
| SANJAY SINHA | |||
| 22. A market-based approach to BDS: the FIT project | |||
| JIM TANBURN | |||
| PART XI, VIABILITY AND MEASUREMENT OF BDS | |||
| 23. The financial viability of BDS | |||
| LARA GOLDMARK | |||
| 24. Measuring BDS performance - A summary framework | |||
| MARY MCVAY |
Jacob Levitsky
Jacob Levitsky is a development consultant based in the UK, and was formerly Small Enterprise Advisor for the World Bank in Washington DC.
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