S&T Country Report - Albania - WBC-INCO Net

• Prioritise the support to SMEs through national policy by focusing on
subsidised business support services, especially targeting start-ups;
• Develop a policy with respect to business incubators including
responsibility for implementation and securing commensurate national and
international resources in order to promote business incubators effectively;
• Reduce complexity and ensure coherency and consistency in policy, laws,
regulations, procedures and support programmes, particularly between fiscal
and developmental policies;
• Establish policies and instruments to facilitate the development of
technology and its intake by companies;
• Improve the coordination of export promotion programmes;
• Assure communication and consultation effectively with SMEs throughout
the country (regular and effective two-way dialogue between the Government
and the business community);
• Guarantee adequate and sustainable financial support for created
structures;
• Assure better co-ordination of activities of the various bodies working to
support SME development;
• Significantly improve co-ordination of SMEs’ projects and initiatives at the
international institution/donor level;
• Disseminate information and promote the role of business incubators;
• Develop better systems for business data collection and processing;
• Develop of web sites for the key SME institutions and assure better quality
of information and services.
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