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2007 Annual Business Summit Presentations

Thursday, 30 August 2007

Plenary Session: Embracing challenges facing SMMEs

• Private sector models for enterprise development; An analysis of Small Business Benefits from the implementation of BEE Codes (pdf)
  - Empowerdex - Mr V Jack
• An overview of the small business sector confidence and performance (pdf)
  - Africa Growth Research - Prof N Biekpe

Defining South Africa's Regulatory Impact Assessment

• Breakaway 1
  • Analysing red tape constraints and regulatory costs for small enterprises (pdf)
    - SBP - Simon Dagut
  • Initiatives on reviewing Business Regulations (pdf)
    - National Treasury - Fundi Tshazibana
  • Private sector perspective on regulations (pdf)
    - First National Bank - Michael Vacy-Lyle

Promoting Entrepreneurship

• Breakaway 2
  • Benchmark Model for Centers of Entrepreneurship (pdf)
    - Wits Entrepreneurship Centre - Prof Fred Ahwireng-Obeng
  • Strategic approaches for Small Enterprise incubators (pdf)
    - NSIC Partnership - H P Kumar
  • Youth Enterprise Development - Thousand by Thousand Programme as a case study (pdf)
    - Western Cape Provincial Department - Deon Damons

Developing Markets for Small Enterprises

• Breakaway 3
  • Trade and Investment South Africa National Export Strategy presents opportunities for small enterprises (pdf)
    - the dti - Riaan Le Roux
  • Building small enterprise scale of production and supply chains through Business Clusters and Cooperative networks, a sector approach (pdf)
    - Clotex - Mr Stefan Segal
  • IT approaches building linkages between small enterprises and services markets- IBSG International case study (pdf)
    - IBSG International - Dr Mike Rivers

New approaches in response to the small business finance challenge

• Breakaway 4
  • The South African micro-enterprise sector analysis (pdf)
    - Mazwe Consultant - MS Xoliswa Bebula
  • Government practices for small business finance (pdf)
    - TECHNONET AFRICA - Mr John Mwaniki
  • Private Sector Response to the financing challenge (pdf)
    - Banking Council - Nicky Lala-Mohan

Friday, 31 August 2007

1st Economy and 2nd Economy Linkages

• Framework for Directing Policy towards sustainable employment creation, poverty alleviation and rural enterprise development as basis for sustainable employment. (pdf)
  - Professor Charlotte du Toit - University of Pretoria
• Public and private sector interventions for rural enterprise and sustainable growth -Limpopo Perspective and Programmes. (pdf)
  - Ledet HOD Jackee Shibambu

2006 Annual Business Summit