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Stakeholders and businessmen in Cameroon’s economic sector, have been urged to promote innovation as a means of accelerating growth of small and medium sized companies in the country.
The call was made by Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa, Minister of Small and Medium- sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts, at the Yaounde Conference Centre on December 19 while opening the 4th edition of the National Days of Small and Medium sized Enterprises.
This edition, organised under the theme “Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovative SMEs for a Strong and Inclusive Growth”, is aimed at examining and assessing recommendations made during previous editions and their implementation by government.
Speaking to participants at the event, the Minister stated that innovation is key to winning international awards. “We need to also create a platform for innovators to strive to win national awards. We should begin with an event like this,”.
Minister Etoundi Ngoa also encouraged entrepreneurs to make the best out of B2B and G2B exchanges with promoters of SMEs, big companies, financial institutions, research institutions and project holders taking part at the event, while calling on the over 50 entrepreneurs present, to use discussions and debates in the 3-day event to pass on proposals which can be beneficial to SMEs nationwide.
