Enterprises themselves take a leading role in the integration process.

Furthermore, national youth led business funds could be established in order to provide necessary assistance to young entrepreneurs.

The purpose of the Regulation respecting pay equity in enterprises where there are no predominantly male job classes is to provide two job classes that are typically male dominated to companies where no such classes exist, so they can complete their pay equity exercise.

An enterprise group meeting the conditions provisioned by the state may make centralized utilization of the research and development expenses to develop the leading products and core technologies of the enterprise independently.

While SMEs in the software sector are less export oriented in their OFDI activities, compared with larger ones, they are relatively more export oriented in the manufacturing sector.

With respect to the types of enterprises, one may distinguish between informal sector enterprises, essentially microenterprises, and enterprises in the formal sector, which include some microenterprises, SMEs and large firms.

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

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The resulting trend is towards oligopolistic competition and growing intra firm and inter firm competition.

Non affiliated and small employers lag behind large employers and those affiliated to employers' organisations.

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is reviewing the impact of the Industry Leadership programme in 2006.

A dialogue which is dominated by the interests of larger firms risks creating policies and strategies which are biased against SMEs.

So what has this got to do with business leadership?

Women head 24 of all the country's enterprises and organizations.

The development of wind energy has given rise to new local enterprises, including those specializing in the design and construction of wind energy equipment.

1.95 665 enterprises will have been working with placement and career guidance services.

In house training supervision techniques, on the job training, improved working methods, human relations, small business administration, chairing meetings, sales techniques, secretarial skills, etc.

There are several reasons for the difference between SMEs' OFDI behaviour and that of large enterprises.

Training courses were designed to meet the needs of small business owners, including borrowers from the Agency s revolving loan funds, potential entrepreneurs and women enterprise owners, who generally had few other opportunities for business or management training.

(1) supervising the implementation of the rules and regulations concerning enterprise finance, directing the enterprises to set up and perfect the internal financial systems in accordance with the financial relations

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This is particularly true of manufacturing firms, which are the main focus of this document.

454. Statistics on the activities of small enterprises and microenterprises tend to underestimate the role of women as entrepreneurs, mainly because it tends to be assumed that family businesses are run by the head of the household.

For example, legal markets are dominated by rich lawyers, schools are controlled by teachers unions, and the medical sector is influenced by powerful doctors, resulting in high business costs that also hamper industrial development.

Similarly, UNDP action has been predominant in organizing general meetings of the private sector which led to the establishment of the Association for the Promotion of the Private Sector aimed at facilitating the creation of enterprises and guiding and advising new entrepreneurs.

Experimental studies have led to the development of models for small businesses providing care.

OFDI from India has not been entirely led by larger enterprises.

ITC should issue guidance on the enterprise oriented approach to ensure that enterprise projects are designed and implemented on a clear and consistent basis (para. 29).

Sensitizing and informing employers and enterprises

Equal treatment and small employers

Then, in every country, leaders set the framework for local entrepreneurship by setting up businesses, by closing them down, and by formalizing the rules of the game.

The Business of Business is More Than Business

Previously, these services were available only for business to business operations, mainly tour operators and travel agencies.

They provide support and training for workers in micro enterprises and small and medium sized enterprises, as well as for owners.

At present, 35 of public entrepreneurial associations that are functioning in the Republic are headed by women.

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Organization of workshops for entrepreneurs (as part of a second module following on the Second Vocational Guidance seminars) these will be run by the Ministry for the Economy.

(f) Contributions Firms are exempt from 100 per cent of employer contributions

Major obstacles to SME development

Innovative strategies, policies and cooperative behaviour of enterprises so far mainly in the developed countries have created opportunities and challenges for the enterprise sector.

The International Trade Centre UNCTAD WTO offers one day training programmes for women entrepreneurs in the service sector that cover export preparedness, enterprise development, linkages and networking within the mainstream business community, the role of women entrepreneurs, creative leadership and economic empowerment.

At times, this has also resulted in a reduced choice of local products and a reduction in the number of stores, especially micro enterprises and SMEs.

County enterprise boards sought to increase women's involvement in entrepreneurship and management through role models and mentoring.

The first practical project launched by MAWRED was the work mentoring scheme involving, in short, independent female work mentors who offer advice and guidance to new women's projects.

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