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Small & Medium Enterprise Development Authority Role in R & D and Industrial Development BY MUKESH KUMAR Manager-Sindh. SMEs in Pakistan. Estimated Number : 3.2 million (99% MSMEs) Value Addition in Manufacturing: 35% Contribution to GDP: 30% Share in manufactured exports: 25%
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Small & Medium Enterprise Development AuthorityRole in R & D and Industrial DevelopmentBYMUKESH KUMARManager-Sindh
SMEs in Pakistan • Estimated Number : 3.2 million (99% MSMEs) • Value Addition in Manufacturing: 35% • Contribution to GDP: 30% • Share in manufactured exports: 25% • Contribution in Employment: 99 % Non -agricultural Sector jobs
SMEDA • Apex Policy Making Body for SMEs • Facilitate Support Services to SMEs • Serve as Key Resource Base • Voice of Small Business within the Government • Kick Start economy through aggressive SME support programs
Responsibilities • Facilitate on Policy-making and provide overall Planning relating to SMEs in Pakistan • Protect the interests of SMEs • Identify research parameters and priorities • Conduct professional overall monitoring and evaluation of SMEs • Advise the Federal Government for allocation of funds to identify research and planning priorities
Responsibilities – Contd. • Act as resource base for providing expertise, information, data, statistics necessary for SMEs • Provide, arrange and facilitate support services necessary for SMEs • Establish association of persons, firm, company, body or corporation concerning SMEs in Pakistan • Initiate, take, continue, implement and perform any and all activities for encouraging and facilitating the growth and development of SMEs
Operational Strategy Building a Conducive Environment • Proposing and facilitating changes in Policy and Regulatory Environment • Reducing the Cost of Doing Business • Facilitating Government-SME Interface Developing Sectors and Clusters • Sector Studies, Strategies and Implementation • Cluster Development • Common Facility Centers (CFCs) Provision and Facilitation of Services • Investment Facilitation • Technology, Training, Finance, Business Information, Marketing, and legal support • Productivity and Competitiveness Improvement
Legends Provincial Offices (4) Regional Business Centers (20) Expanding Outreach Mingora Abbotabad Rawalpindi Gurat Sialkot Gujranwala D I Khan Loralai Faisalabad Multan Sukkur Larkana Dadu Hub Hyderabad Gwadar
Why R & D? • To explore new avenues • To understand true potential • To enter export markets • To compete in changing global economic scenario • To make continued progress
Technology Innovation(1/2) • Glass Products Design & Development Center, Hyderabad • Leather Footwear Center, Hyderabad • Foundry Design Center, Lahore • Composite Material Development Center, Sialkot • Sports Products Design & Development Center, Sialkot • AHAN
Technology Innovation(2/2) • Auto parts Design & Development Center, Lahore • Light Engineering Services Center, Faisalabad • Chilies Processing Facility, Kunri • Fruit & Vegetable Processing Unit, Multan
Business Incubation Support • Women Business Development Center, Lahore • Women Business Development Center, Karachi • Gujranwala Business Center • Hyderabad Business Center • Sialkot Business Center • Tameer-Entrepreneurship program
Priority Sectors Gems & Jewelry Dairy Wooden Furniture Sports Goods Marble & Granite Fisheries Surgical Goods