Download or read book Final Report written by Harry L. Kaane and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technology Policies for Micro and Small Enterprise MSE Development in Kenya written by Harry L. Kaane and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Towards Technology Models for MSEs in Kenya written by Eliud Moyi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technology Adoption and Its Effect on Performance of Youth Led Mses written by Kithae Peter and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micro and small Enterprise (MSE) sector has been recognized worldwide as key in wealth generation, employment creation and poverty reduction. To perform this role, these enterprises have to access and adopt upcoming technologies which will help in improving quality of their products to survive This book is hedged on a research done and whose objective was to find out how the Kenyan youth are using acquired technologies to improve quality of their MSE products to with-stand local and international competition. An MSE technology adoption model developed from the study suggested a number of deliberate actions aimed at enhancing technology adoption amongst youth led MSEs. This book is therefore highly recommended for entrepreneurship students, economic development agencies, donors and their beneficiaries, Government departments dealing with youth and with economic development, community and rural development partners, students and lecturers from institutions of higher learning and academicians in all fields among ot

Download or read book Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya written by Andrew Mullei and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Final Report of the Workshop on Policy Research to Foster Micro and Small Scale Enterprises written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Support for Growth oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Kenya written by Lois Stevenson and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Development Bank's (AfDB) Addis Ababa Forum in June 2003 focused on the role of women entrepreneurs in private sector development, poverty reduction, and sustainable growth and development. It provided an opportunity for the AfDB and the International Labour Office (ILO) to join forces using their complementary expertise in support of women-owned businesses in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Zambia. This report is based on the country assessment for Kenya, where the ILO has been researching and supporting women's entrepreneurship. Examining such issues as the economic context, micro-finance.

Download or read book Micro and Small Enterprise MSE Promotion Through Training and Entrepreneurship Development in Kenya and Uganda written by E. J. Walakira and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Growing Small And Micro Enterprise Sector Through ICT In Kenya written by Oyaro Thomas Okoth and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide a framework upon which the growth of MSEs can be boosted. Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) are rightly considered to be the engine for economic growth in developed and developing countries however, due to lack of information their growth has been hampered with, as most of them concentrate on local market, selling almost similar products. The book explore how information and Communication technology can be used to provide information that improves design and packaging of MSEs products, expand their markets, increase access to financial and credit services, but more so readily avail regulatory information in a more convenient way especially to the rural MSEs. The book proposes creation of National Data bases linked to various MSEs support organizations and tele-centres in the rural areas which can easily availed information to

Download or read book The Impact of Technology Transfer for Micro and Small Enterprises written by Sintayehu Tadesse and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject Communications - Technical Communication, , language: English, abstract: The goal of this action research was to see how technology transfer from Misrak Polytechnic College affected small-scale businesses. Based on this, the researcher concentrated on transferred technology in the academic years 2012 and 2013 E.C. and employed a survey methodology to achieve the study's goal. A total of 57 trainers and 8 technology team members were chosen for this research to transfer and facilitate technology. From them 81.5% were male and 18.5% female. In addition, 57 firms were chosen to acquire technology from trainers. Data was collected through questionnaires and observation. To emphasize the link and variance of the variables, the data collected through the questionnaire was analyzed using frequency %, mean and standard deviation. To complement the quantitative statistics, the information gathered through open ended questionnaires was evaluated qualitatively. The findings suggest that trainers' problem-solving methods on technology transfer are based on their knowledge of how to deal with technology. Although the trainers have a basic understanding of technology, the results show that additional understanding is required. Aside from that, the findings examine knowledge and skills in value chain analysis. The mean value was 3.38 and the standard deviation was computed as 1.07, which is larger than one, implying that the data was spread out over a wide range of values, implying that respondents had a variety of alternatives when it came to this particular variable. There are no widespread surveys on the college's suitability for technology development and transfer. In the previous two years, 85.2 percent of trainers produced and transmitted technology for small businesses, but no single technology has been duplicated or made available to the general public by SMEs. The transferred technology is not being imitated by SMEs, but the results demonstrate that the enterprises are interested in technology transfer. The majority of the trainers believe that the transferred technology has a functional difficulty, lacks a nice physical look, and does not match the planned goal.

Download or read book Sessional Paper No 2 of 2005 on Development of Micro and Small Enterprises for Wealth and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction written by Kenya and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Support for Growth oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia Kenya and Tanzania written by Lois Stevenson and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the background information to the ILO-African Development Bank country-level studies on the subject and presents the findings and recommendations resulting from the application of the analytical integrated framework in the three countries.

Download or read book Technology for South African Small Medium and Micro Enterprises written by Jim Mullin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhancing Africa s Competitiveness Through Small and Medium Scale Enterprises written by Francis A. S. T. Matambalya and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small and medium scale enterprises and the economy / Francis A.S.T Matambabya (p.1-14). --Education and training of entrepreneurs in South Africa : a situational analysis / Gideon Nieman (p. 15-32). --Adoption of information technology by Tanzanian entrepreneurs in the service industries : a business process re-engineering emphasis / Ullingera O Mbamba (p. 33-52). --Institutionalisation of the public-private sector dialogue in Tanzania : are SMEs left out? / Erasmus S Kaijage (p. 53-82). --The influence of national policies, laws, and regulations of employment in macro and small enterprises / M.M. Chijoriga, L.J. Mwaipopo and D.R. Olomi (p. 83-114). --Culture, poverty alleviation and small business development in sub-Saharan Africa : a research-paradigm approach / Osarumwenze Iguisi (p. 115-139). --An empirical study of the Botswana crafts market / S.K. Massimo, P.T. Mburu and K. Mutua (p. 141-168). --The role of the Internet : how are Botswana SMEs using the Internet? / B.A.S. Magembe and A.P. Shemi (p. 169-189). --The development of export trade in Tanzania : an export vision / Enos S. Bukuku (p. 191-208). --Exploring the potentialities of export processing free zones (EPZ) for SME development in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from Mauritius / Lettice Kinunda-Rutashobya(p. 209-226). --The national micro-finance polity / Grace Rubambey (p. 227-233). --Reflections on the economic value of EPZs creating a supply side foundation for international competitiveness / J.L. Simbakalia (p. 235-241). --Making market knowledge competence a strategic source of entrepreneurship / K. Okoso-Amaa (p. 241-249).

Download or read book Industrial Clusters and Micro and Small Enterprises in Africa written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute, and the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), in collaboration with researchers affiliated with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), recently conducted a study on Africa s domestic enterprises to improve the understanding of the constraints micro and small enterprises in Africa face in improving productivity and expanding their markets. In Africa, there are stark performance gaps between domestically owned enterprises and foreign-owned enterprises in terms of sales performance, productivity, and ability to reach distant markets. Among others, size appears to be a dominant factor in explaining the gap. Against this background, the study analyzes how naturally formed industrial clusters concentrations of enterprises engaged in same or closely related industrial activities in specific locations could potentially mitigate constraints Africa s micro and small enterprises face and enhance their business performance. The study is one of the first comprehensive quantitative inquiries on industrial clusters in Africa. The analysis specifically focuses on the role of spontaneously grown clusters of light manufacturing industries based on a set of original case studies of industrial clusters conducted for this research project. One of the key findings from the case studies was that cluster-based micro and small enterprises are performing better than similar micro and small enterprises outside of the clusters in terms of sales performance and ability to reach distant markets. Market access is a leading reason for cluster-based enterprises to choose their current locations. However, cluster-based enterprises face another set of unique growth constraints. By the very nature of spontaneous agglomera tion, new enterprises continue to flow to the clusters seeking the profit opportunities and better access to markets at such locations. The result can be intense competition in addition to increased congestion. Space constraints often impede growth within clusters. The lack of alternative locations available for industrial activities in the same cities, generic infrastructure bottlenecks, and unclear zoning policies and their unpredictable changes limit firms location choices and constrain their mobility. While competition should improve efficiency, lack of capacity among those competing cluster-based enterprises to invest and innovate does not generate growth out of the competition. The vast majority of naturally formed clusters of light manufacturing industries in Africa are still at a survival level, where agglomeration externalities are only limited to expand quantity but not quality as we observe in more advanced innovation-oriented clusters in elsewhere in the world. Existing studies on such natural industrial clusters in Africa have found that the lack of managerial skills among entrepreneurs running micro and small enterprises is a major constraint for innovation and growth in the clusters. As a part of this study, pilot managerial skills training programs were conducted in two industrial clusters on an experimental basis, where a group of randomly selected entrepreneurs within the clusters were given three-week long crush course of based management such as bookkeeping, marketing, business planning, and production management. The impact evaluation of the experiments showed significant positive impacts of the training programs on value added and gross profits of enterprises. Raising the current survival-type industrial clusters, which have been formed as a coping mechanism to weak investment climate, into more dynamic innovating clusters will be an important avenue for fostering growth of micro and small enterprises in Africa. While national efforts to improve investment climate and investments in human capital are undoubtedly important, there could be more targeted policies to be formulated, in complementing general policies, to support growth of micro and small domestic enterprises using existing industrial clusters as a natural springboard for their growth. In that context, the study discusses the merit of cluster-based managerial human capital development to build steps toward more innovation-oriented clusters, the importance of sound spatial planning policy, particularly at the local level in the context of urban planning, the need to expand market access and economic linkages for industrial clusters including regional integration and linkages with large enterprises.

Download or read book Developing a Marketing Framework for Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya written by Eliud Moyi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: