Industry minister Atchaka Sibunruang said that the second funding would target 15 projects ranging from improving the creativity and innovations of the SMEs, reengineering, promotion of product designs to skills development and franchise development. The Commerce, Industry, Science & Technology ministries and the SME promotion office will jointly help implementing 11 projects aimed to help the SMEs at a total cost of 1.8 billion baht. Altogether over 27,000 SMEs will benefit from these projects.