Innovation comes in small packages
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Wilkinson
KEYWORDS: DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, INNOVATION, JOB CREATION, SMALL MEDIUM AND MICRO ENTERPRISES
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/november-2009/innovation
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6119
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4544
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4544
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): I.Wilkinson
KEYWORDS: DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, INNOVATION, JOB CREATION, SMALL MEDIUM AND MICRO ENTERPRISES
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/november-2009/innovation
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6119
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4544
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4544
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Abstract
Small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs), a central policy focus area in South Africa, specifically with regard to economic growth and employment creation, have the potential to become engines of innovation. But lack of funding hampers the sector's innovation development. Irma Wilkinson believes that current SMME policies and programmes need to be broadened to stimulate innovation.-
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