SMEs — A South African Perspective
By Madelein Kleyn South Africa does not invest in procuring accurate statistics on small businesses in South Africa, making it difficult to find the exact number of companies that operate in the country. SEDA issued a broad statistical overview of the SMEs of South Africa in January 2016 and presented the following indicators. According to […]
Patent And SMEs In Latin America: Peru
By Renzo Scavia The Patent Awareness of SMEs Aware in PeruIn general, Peruvian legal and individual persons are not aware of the importance of patents at the desired level. Furthermore, most of the Peruvian companies which seek protection of their patents before INDECOPI, the national authority competent for patent matters, are not SMEs.
Patent And SMEs In Latin America: Mexico
By Roxana Aispuro and Hector Chagoya Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have particular importance in the Mexican economy. This is not only because of their contribution to economic growth, but also their potential for jobs creation and innovation. SMEs generally represent a vehicle to boost regional and local economic development in Mexico.
Patent And SMEs In Latin America: Colombia
By Fernando Triana Soto and Marcela Gómez Rubio The “Promotion of technological development and innovation” is one of the policies set by the Colombian Government for the growth of the country’s economy with the objective of strengthening the national business sector through innovation.About 10 years ago, a comprehensive overview of the status of innovation in […]
Patent And SMEs In Latin America: Chili
By Felipe Claro Many Chilean SMEs have good ideas that never see the market, either because they don’t know how to use the patent system in their favor or because they do not have access to good commercial partners. Sometimes, prospective partners simply copy the non-protected solutions and replicate them by their own. There is […]
Patent And SMEs In Latin America: Brazil
By Cândida Caffé and Mariana Vicentini The participation of Micro and Small enterprises (SMEs) in the Brazilian economy is significant and growing: in 1985 SMEs represented 21% of Brazil’s GDP, having increased to 23.2 percent in the year of 2001 and to 27 percent in the year of 2011.1 In February 2017, SMEs were responsible […]
Patent And SMEs In India
By Sunita K. Sreedharan The Ministry of of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (M/o MSME) set up on May 9, 2007 by the merging of two ministries i.e. erstwhile Ministry of Small Scale Industries and the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries, has been on the fore-front to creaste awareness of IPR among the MSMEs […]
SMEs In ASEAN And Singapore—IP Perspectives
By Audrey Yap Small medium sized enterprises or SMEs form the backbone of most economies but are particularly important in Asia where the majority of businesses still lack the scale and reach of their western counterparts in developed economies as multinationals. SMEs across Asia Pacific contribute 20-50 percent of their respective nation’s gross domestic product, […]
SMEs: Patent Challenges And Policies In China
By Qinghong Xu In China, when referred to SMEs, often micro-size enterprises are also taken into account. These businesses play an important role in China’s economic development. In 2015, the micro, small, and medium enterprises accounted for 99 percent of the total number of enterprises, and their contributions to national gross domestic product, industrial gross […]
SMEs And Patents In The United States
By John Cabeca and Ivan Chaperot Within the U.S. economy, many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are intensely aware of the need to protect intellectual property (IP) and to incorporate IP strategy into their business growth and development plans. Due to the expense, complexities, and laborious process, unfortunately, many SMEs do not effectively build out […]
