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Indigenous Design and Production Entrepreneurship: Sector Performance Audits and Proactive Support
(Bulletin of the Centre for Academic Development, 2008-03) Phuthi, Nduduzo; Letsatsi, M.T.
There is little doubt, if at all, that one of the most urgent goals for developing Africa is genuine economic emancipation, which would, in turn, expedite solutions to the persistent problems of poverty, disease, ignorance, civil strife, and many others. This emancipation requires deliberate, proactive home-grown initiatives that gradually unshackle economically deprived nations from dependence on imported expertise, ideas, tools and products, to a culture of planned local design, production and trade in globally competitive wares and products. Such a mindset has evolved over the years in industrialised countries through steady and cumulative growth from small to medium to large-scale business enterprises. In this paper we propose a systematic audit for small and medium-scale enterprises in the design and production business which would assist to identify the necessary support needed to propel the local small and medium-scale sector into national and global competitiveness.