Small business

8.2 Mission statement and governing principles
8.2.1 Mission
Objective: To set out how the SME development policy sits within the vision of the government.
This means, in particular, how it contributes to the key targets and themes outlined above:
• Its contribution to growth, employment, exports, import substitution, competition and therefore price
stability, local and regional development and sector development priorities;
• Its contribution to the government’s main programme themes, for example, competitiveness,
education, technology and innovation, social exclusion and minority group development, IT and
perhaps rural development;
• The key priority areas. These ought to mention the broad strategies for development in the four key
areas of:
- Enterprise culture and in particular the role of enterprise education at all levels;
- Business start-ups and survival. Priorities - tourism, food processing and distribution, ethnic groups,
social exclusion, technology, e-business and commerce – may be included here; 
- Growth of the existing SME sector and the main challenges to growth;
- Development of the stakeholder and regulatory infrastructure.