The Technology Bureau for Small Enterprises (TBSE)The Bureau provides a platform where small enterprises can tap opportunities at the global level for acquisition of technology or establish business collaboration. Resulting from the joint initiative of the United Nations’ Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT) and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) it represents, under one roof, synergy of technology and finance. The important features of TBSE services are : - Offers a professionally managed system for technology and collaboration search.
- Helps in building up confidence between prospective partners.
- Lends a friendly hand in the intricate task of negotiations and matching of perceptions.
- Provides a gateway to global technology market through networking.
- Unique mechanism for arranging technology and finance.
- Takes up project appraisal and preparation of business plan.
Range of Services Technology Information : The Bureau has a large computerised data base on technology options available from different countries. It gives the user updated information on sources of technologies and means of accessing them. Also background information on technology-seeking enterprises is maintained and made available to interested technology suppliers and collaborators. Match Making : It identifies business partners willing to collaborate, brings them face to face and extends support to tie up financial assistance and other requirements for transfer of technology and joint ventures. Collaborating partners are further assisted in drafting agreements, obtaining various approvals and preparation of business plans. Finance Syndication : Depending on the cost of project, nature and quantum of assistance required, the Bureau undertakes financial syndication through SIDBI covering term loans, foreign currency, venture capital, lines of credit, equity assistance and on selective basis interest-free loan to meet initial expenditure in the pre-technology absorption stage. Business Collaboration : The Bureau offers support to small enterprises for the export of technologies and the products manufactured by them through business tie-ups as a part of the package. To promote international cooperation amongst SMEs the Bureau organises overseas visits of business delegations. Support Services : It arranges consultancy services, visits of overseas experts for in-plant counselling: coordinates buyer-seller meets for specific product process technologies and represents the business interests of small enterprises in international events. Membership Procedures & BenefitsClients desirous of associating with the Bureau and availing its services may indicate their status, legal constitution, brief information on product line, latest financial position, working results and technology level as per proforma given in
membership form. Those planning to set up modern industrial enterprises in identified fields may furnish an outline of the business proposal to avail the services. Enterprises registered with the Bureau (members) will be entitled to obtain relevant information on technology options available on the industrial sectors of interest out of the broad groupings (given on next page) to strengthen their technology upgradation, diversification or expansion plans merely by quoting the registration number. Technologies for products/processes not available with the Bureau can also be scouted through its channels and networks. Companies/firms with definite business plan and identified product (s)/ technology (ies) keen to commission specific search or promote their technologies or interested in business collaboration will be required to fill up prescribed forms (tech request/offer) which call for bare minimum information to facilitate quick search and match-making. Information relating to innovations regarding products and processes, current developments, forthcoming technology transfer events, opportunities and business contacts etc. will be available on an ongoing basis to the members. Technology/services of international standards and with export potential will be promoted through special measures designed to have wide-reaching impact. Bar codes and the GS1 System of identification are a trusted friend providing enormous benefits to our world. They continue to provide a revolutionary leap forward for our world every time the bar code goes "Beep". Young people today cannot comprehend a world without the sound of the little "Beep", but when combined across our globe, the symphony of "Beeps" continues to lead to a world of benefits. GS1 manages a global system that allows companies all around the world to globally and uniquely identify their physical things like trade items (products & services), assets, logistic units, shipments, and physical locations and logical things like a corporation or a service relationship between provider and recipient. When this powerful identification system is combined with GS1 BarCodes, EPC tags, eCom business messages, and the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), the connection is made between these physical or logical things and the information the supply chain needs about them. With the connection made, one world of global commerce comes into view
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