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Promote local SMEs to pursue overseas business opportunities
Recommended Actions
Stakeholder
E.O.I. IMPACT
Undertake more initiatives and engagement sessions
with SMEs to raise awareness on the availability of
schemes and assistance programmes to support their
expansion into overseas markets.
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Initiative
4.2
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E.g. MATRADE provides various form of support
to facilitate the development of the export sector
Industry
through funding opportunities, consultation,
market research, export promotion, etc. Some of Associations,
these initiatives include the Services Export Fund, SME Corp,
Mid-Tier Companies Development Programme, MATRADE
GoEx and Malaysia Services e-Directory (MSeD).
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Industry associations should play an active role in
encouraging
companies
to
boost
their
engagements with agencies such as MATRADE
and utilise the financial assistances to help their
export business.
Develop more programmes/platforms which encourage
partnership between large corporations and SMEs.
Through these platforms, large corporates can play a
role in role in helping and mentoring SMEs in the
export market through their supply chains or guidance.
Example
Industry
Large
Corporation-SME
Partnership
Programme
by
Associations,
Initiative
MATRADE aims to increase the number of SME Corp,
4.3
partnerships between large corporations and SMEs for MATRADE
international projects by way of procurement of the
SME’s services by the large corporations. Under this
partnership, SME service providers will benefit in
terms of knowledge transfer, capacity building and
international exposure.
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