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UNIDO
SME Upgrading & IP
Tom Kenyon PhDIndustrial Development Officer
UNITED NATIONSINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION
• Integrate projects and research: use projects to test hypotheses: e.g. what works to encourage uptake of IP among SMEs in dev. countries?
• Division of labor: research team (WIPO) designs intervention, analyzes data; project team (UNIDO) manages intervention, collects data
• Benefits: sharper impact assessment & more carefully designed interventions
Opportunity
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UNITED NATIONSINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION
• UN mandate to encourage sustainable industrial development (esp. agribusiness)
• Focus on technical assistance (not research): policy advice, institutional capacity-building, markets for business development services
• Operate mainly at meso level: clusters & associations of firms (not individual firms)
UNIDO
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Automotive Companies
Mining Companies
Power Companies
Transport Companies
Agriculture Companies
Coordinate Buyer
RequirementsGap
analysis
Facilitated self-assessment
Upgrading plans
Investment projects
LARGE BUYERS
Benchmarking
LOCAL SUPPLIERS
UNITED NATIONSINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION
UNIDO & Supplier Development
UNITED NATIONSINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION
Automotive Component Supplier Development Program (SA)
• Component of SA Industrial Policy Program (DTI)
• Combines benchmarking & soft upgrading (learning by doing)
• Service delivery via AIDC; clustering for knowledge transfer
• UNIDO role as advisor/monitor (substitute for DTI)
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UNITED NATIONSINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTORGANIZATION
• Incorporate collaborative R&D upgrading module into Phase 2 AIDC Program (2010)
• Include survey questions in initial and final benchmark (control & treatment)
• Preliminary proposal by early October 2009: TK discuss with AIDC/DTI/CIPRO/NTI
Proposal: making it work
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