Transcript UNIDO & Supplier Development

UNIDO
SME Upgrading & IP
Tom Kenyon PhD
Industrial Development Officer
UNITED NATIONS
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION
Opportunity
• 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
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UNIDO
• 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)
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UNIDO & Supplier Development
LARGE BUYERS
LOCAL SUPPLIERS
Facilitated selfassessment
Automotive
Companies
Mining
Companies
Power
Companies
Benchmarking
Coordinate
Buyer
Requirements
Gap
analysis
Transport
Companies
Agriculture
Companies
Upgrading
plans
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Investment
projects
UNITED NATIONS
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION
Automotive Component Supplier
Development Program (SA)
• Component of SA Industrial
Policy Program (DTI)
• Combines benchmarking &
soft upgrading (learning by
doing)
• Service delivery
clustering
for
transfer
via AIDC;
knowledge
• UNIDO role as advisor/monitor
(substitute for DTI)
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Proposal: making it work
• 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
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ORGANIZATION
Thank you!
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