There needs to be necessary and sufficient resources (human and finance) that
can be used for building the capacity of SMEs. For instance, the government can
develop a public-private partnership framework for BDS, a one-stop shop, with
personalized services and quality assurance for SMEs such as training,
counseling and advice, technology development and transfer, information,
business linkage and networking, finance management, and alternative financing
mechanisms. In addition, business incubations could be provided through the
BDSs and other government agencies.
Because governments usually serve more as a facilitator rather than a provider, it
can look at the concept of the BDSs and consider it as a prime opportunity to
build public-private partnerships wherein the private sector can provide the
expertise that SMEs need. For this, government should give incentives to private
providers of BDSs.