Indigenous Design and Production Entrepreneurship: Sector Performance Audits and Proactive Support
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Date
2008-03
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Bulletin of the Centre for Academic Development
Abstract
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.
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Entrepreneurship, Global competitiveness
Citation
Phuthi, N. and Letsatsi M.T. (2008). Indigenous Design and Production Entrepreneurship: Sector Performance Audits and Proactive Support. Centre for Academic Development.