Small and Medium enterprises: Technology Policies and Policies/ A.S. Bhalla

table of contents
PART I: FAVORABLE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS 13

1. Centralized versus decentralized policy toward small and medium enterprises 17
2. Technological policy for small and medium enterprises; The Canadian experience 29
3. Technology policy for small and medium enterprises in the Netherlands 47
4. technological transformation of small and medium enterprises in China 55
5. Technology promotion programs for small enterprises: The Philippine experience 67

PART II: BUILDING TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES 79

6. Innovations and small producers in developing countries 83
7,. Building indigenous technological capability through foreign assistance to small/medium enterprises 101
8. A new approach tp innovation in traditional industries: The Italian experience 109
9. Building technological capability of Finnish small industry through risk-financing 127
10. Technological transformation of small enterprises in Zhejiang province, China 139
11. Technological characteristic's and change in small industrial enterprises in Guangdong Province, China 153
12. Management and technological capabilities of Malaysian small and medium enterprises: Constraints and potential 167
13.Development of design and manufacturing capabilities in a small Nigerian company 175

PART III.: INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE183

14. Nurturing microenterprises and technological innovation through business incubation process 187
15. Institutions for promoting technological modernization of Indian small enterprises203
16. Technical and managerial extension services for Korean small and medium enterprises 213
17. Cooperation between research and educational institutions and small enterprises in China 221
18. Infrastructural requirements of information technology and small and medium enterprises 233
The seminar report 247
Select Bibliography 271
index 275
Notes on the Contributors 283









includes bibliographic references and index