Small business

DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIST INSTITUTIONS
5.1 Small business development centres and local enterprise agencies
Objective: To build local capacity to provide specialist services to the local SME sector, maximising the potential
for entrepreneurial behaviour and leadership.  
Chapter 2 has already indicated the need to decentralise support to SMEs. International experience with
the development of small business development centres and local enterprise agencies (LEAs) has
highlighted a number of additional important issues:
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