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Innovation Infrastructures: Montenegro FINAL VERSION
Innovation Support
Submission Date: July 22,2011
• A sectoral pilot for ‘triple helix’ partnerships between research, business and
government for Bosnia and Hercegovina;
• A competence technology centre for Serbia.
Contact
Website: www.investmentcompact.org
Contact person:
Milan Konopek, RCI Project Leader
Phone: +33 01 45 24 79 18
E-mail: Milan.Konopek@oecd.org
TurnAround Management and Business Advisory Service (BAS)
Programme Montenegro
Acronym: TAM/BAS
Organisation type: Programme (Other)
The TurnAround Management (TAM) and Business Advisory Services (BAS)
Programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) provide
micro, small and medium-sized enterprises with direct assistance from experienced
business advisors and consultants, helping them to adapt to the demands of a market
economy.
TAM Programme
The TurnAround Management (TAM) Programme helps small and medium to large sized
enterprises transform themselves. TAM advisors enable enterprises to make structural
changes and develop new business skills at senior management level, helping them to
thrive and compete in market economies. TAM operates in conjunction with the EBRD’s
Business Advisory Service (BAS).
Since its start in 2002, the TAM has completed 10 projects and a further three are still
on-going. Since then, more than € 2,8 million have been invested. The sectors which
received the most TAM support are food manufacturing and tourism. TAM is especially
focusing on the assistance of the restructuring process in Montenegro, according to the
TAM/BAS Strategy for 2008-2010.
BAS Programme
The Business Advisory Services (BAS) Programme is a technical assistance programme
of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) aimed at supporting
the development and growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME). The
BAS Programme works with MSME’s to improve their performance by involving local
business advisors. BAS assists individual enterprises to engage with local consultants
on narrowly-based, specific projects with a rapid payback. Since its establishment in
2003, BAS has implemented over 370 different projects in the whole country and
engaged over 100 local consulting companies and individual consultants. Additionally,
BAS carries out market development activities (MDA) to facilitate the development of a
sustainable infrastructure of local business advisory services. BAS also operates in
Dissemination level: Public
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