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Small Medium Enterprise Development Authority
Role in R D and Industrial
DevelopmentBYMUKESH KUMARManager-Sindh
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Expanding Outreach
Mingora
Abbotabad
Rawalpindi
Gurat
Sialkot
Gujranwala
D I Khan
Loralai
Faisalabad
Multan
Sukkur
Larkana
Dadu
Hub
Hyderabad
Gwadar
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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

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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

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Technology Innovation(2/2)

• Auto parts Design Development Center, Lahore
• Light Engineering Services Center, Faisalabad
• Chilies Processing Facility, Kunri
• Fruit Vegetable Processing Unit, Multan

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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

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Priority Sectors

• Gems Jewelry
• Dairy
• Wooden Furniture
• Sports Goods
• Marble Granite
• Fisheries
• Surgical Goods

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Thank You