WORKSHOP ON INTERNATIONALIZATION AND PROMOTION OF CARIBBEAN SME CONSORTIUMS
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. July  08 to 09, 2013

AGENDA

First day

8:30 Registration of participants

 
9:00 Opening session:
  • Antonio Leone Durante – Programme SELA-PYME
  • Representative of European Union Delegation
  • Representative of DIGECOOM
  • Ignacio Méndez, Vice ministry – Ministry of Industry and Commerce - Dominican Republic.
9:45 Presentatión: Program for Direct Assistance to the Caribbean SMEs, in the framework of integration CARICOM-DR
10:30 Coffee break

 
10:45 Panel I: Business vision and integral approach for the internationalization of Caribbean SMEs

 
11: 30 Presentation: Entrepreneurial Integration. Support mechanisms to promote SMES networks, benefits and stages. SMES Network characteristics and internal regulation
12:30 Questions and answers

 
13:00 FREE TIME FOR LUNCH

 
14:30 Presentation: Definition, types, characteristics and operation of exporting consortiums
15:30 Coffee Break

 
16:00 Presentation: The role of origin consortiums in rural development, territorial marketing and promotion of tourism: “Relationship between handicrafts and tourism. UNIDO experiences in Latin America.
17:00 Questions and answers

 
17:30 Closing session for the first day

 

Second day

 

9:00 Presentation: Exporting Sector Promotion Strategies and Policies
10:00 Presentation: Public Policies to Promote SMEs Export.
10:45 Coffee Break

 
11:15 Panel II: Experiences of Caribbean enterprises in exports and case of studies
12:30 Questions and answers

 
13:00 FREE TIME FOR LUNCH

 
14:30 Presentation: Association Strategies. Promotion of partnership and stages for the establishment of exporting consortiums.
  • Zoilo Pallares, Consultant–Expert from Colombia
3:15 Presentation: Stages, methodologies and Institutional Role of actors involved in the establishment of export consortiums.
4:30 Conclusions and Recommendations

 
5:00 Closing session