Trade unions are recognised on a plant or establishment basis rather than on an industry wide basis.

Measures for effective protection include Physical security of likely targets e.g. public buildings, public transport (aviation, land and maritime), places of symbolic value, critical national infrastructure.

Some commercial firms are basing their export strategies on telemedicine.

In such an environment, firms in the same line of business compete with each other on a more equal footing.

A range of government policies influences the behaviour of firms directly or through the market, institutions, infrastructure and inter firm relations.

SMEs provide a breeding ground for entrepreneurs.

What needs to be done by corporations and governments to better take advantage of this new framework?

Furthermore, it can strengthen the entrepreneurial base in the host country by providing local entrepreneurs with management skills and new experiences.

The SSE programme had a capital base of 1.7 million at mid 1998 and an overall recovery rate of 94 per cent.

Silicon Valley itself was built on demand. The US Department of Defense put up tens of billions of dollars in contracts for microelectronics, a commitment that both paid down innovators risk and created an infrastructure that would support the growth of start ups.

11. While regular and effective government private sector dialogue is essential for the creation of a coherent policy framework for enterprise development, sound and effective dialogue must at the same time be based on a coherent national policy framework on SMEs.

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Enterprises could also be encouraged to employ students as interns or part time researchers, laying the foundation for later employment.

(c) To establish a permanent dialogue on investment, the expansion of the entrepreneurial base and access to credit and technical assistance

The MEC and SGL programmes utilized the same capital base, which at mid 1997 was valued at 3.1 million.

Aftek Infosys is a good example of a transnational SME using overseas mergers and acquisitions to acquire firm specific resources and expand the customer base.

The findings of a recent survey undertaken by UNCTAD (Nachum, 1997) covering large firms in developing countries which have diversified from a commodity base show that these firms which have diversified away from a commodity base display certain common characteristics in their diversification process.

I would urge leaders to have higher expectations of what business can deliver of how business can bring more than investment, but also expertise and capability of how business can not only provide enterprise, but also help with infrastructure and the delivery of public goods.

Companies throughout the information and communication technology sector have started to make transparency reports an industry standard. But more telecommunications companies and hardware manufacturers should join Internet companies and privacy rights advocates to build a broad reform coalition.

Many SMEs, notably small and microenterprises, may not be able to compete on equal terms, particularly with regard to access to finance or information, and some specific additional measures may be needed in order to help them.

Industrial enterprises in Northeast China have a large proportion and a good foundation. For Northeast China, to make innovation means to have development and to plan for innovation means to plan for the future.

There is no single technological pathway building national infrastructures or connecting to the GII for businesses or consumers.

Moreover, business is increasingly coming to appreciate that the work of the United Nations on behalf of peace, human rights and development helps lay the stable foundations that the expansion of its own opportunities requires.

Affordable broadband access to information through the Internet is one of the immediate measures needed for creating and improving the information and communication infrastructure needed by educational and research institutions and by commercial enterprises as well.

Enterprises, particularly those in high tech industries, cannot function and produce without stable electric grid systems, and institutional infrastructure such as adequate legal protections for their property.

Participants highlighted the difficulties in assessing when mere presence would amount to complicity in abuse as well as the difficulty in withdrawing, particularly given the fixed nature of infrastructure in the industry.

The partnership was based on the unique experience of Italian clusters of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Accessing ICT networks There are area risks of social exclusion if businesses and citizens do not have access to an adequate NII.

15. In today apos s competitive world markets, firms had to compete on the basis of a comprehensive service package, and not just on the basis of costs.

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These changes, in turn, call for a holistic and integrated approach to enterprise development that addresses the multiplicity and interaction of factors that underpin the growth and competitiveness of enterprises.

The appeal to religious based opposition is an attempt to undercut the traditional clan based system.

Governments should recognize the importance of infrastructural support and of investment in education and training for enterprise development.

In order to build a solid foundation for future entrepreneurs and innovators it was felt that basic education was of particular importance, with an emphasis on applied research and technology transfer and adaptation.

The solid foundation for future entrepreneurs and innovators in basic education was of particular importance, especially in relation to applied research and technology transfer and its adaptation.

These efforts mobilize private enterprises more directly and concentrate on promoting inter firm cooperation, including the identification of elements likely to build a suitable framework or enabling environment for such cooperation.

The solution is a rapid shift from China s export based growth model to one based on domestic demand from infrastructure to consumption from the dominance of large state owned enterprises (SOEs) to that of small and medium size private enterprises from industry to services and, more broadly, from bureaucratic control to market control.

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Joint venture notwithstanding paragraph (2) above, the applicant shall nevertheless offer the Enterprise the opportunity to obtain up to 50 per cent participation in a joint venture on the basis of pari passu treatment with the applicant for all purposes

Other initiatives supported by the Bank on a pilot basis include equity financing and technological and management support through joint ventures (for example, with indigenously owned enterprises in developed countries) and other equity financing mechanisms.

The application of ICT to business processes (e business) can be a powerful tool for small businesses and rural entrepreneurs, enabling them to compete in the knowledge based global economy by providing them with market information and to make their business processes more efficient.

The basis for such dialogue had to be broadened and consolidated by involving relevant actors at all levels, including governments, businesses and civil society.

(a) In the event the Enterprise elects not to accept 50 per cent of such equity participation, the Enterprise may obtain a lesser per cent on the basis of pari passu treatment with the applicant for all purposes for such lesser participation

Creating skills, establishing market connectivity, expanding infrastructure and services, and then refinancing and sharing the risk of financing micro and small enterprises would all require additional finance.

If this critical mass can be generated from a large population of local enterprises (especially SMEs), new telecom infrastructure will contribute to the enhancement of local employment, transfer of technologies and economic performance.