Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises Reports

This training program was designed to clarify the challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to strengthen their capacity to formulate effective promotion policies. A total of 11 participants took part in the program, including officials from central ministries and agencies, local government administrators, and members of other public support organizations such as chamber of commerce. In Tokyo, participants attended lectures on policy planning, while in the Kansai region they learned about local-level measures and observed on-site business support activities.

In 2021, with a policy to promote small and medium size enterprises in the country, a new government policy was announced to increase the variety of businesses private company owners could be involved in and policies regarding small and medium size enterprises.
On this occasion, PREX received a commission from Oriental Consultants Global to arrange part of a training course on promoting small and medium-sized enterprises.

This training program was designed to clarify the issues facing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in participants’ home countries and to strengthen the capacity of SMEs to formulate their own promotion policies.

In this course, measures taken for the development of small-medium enterprises by the government ministries, regional authorities, organizations, enterprises, etc. were introduced. By sharing examples from participating nations, the goal was to draft solutions for selected problems each participant’s nation faced.