How to Save Lacs by Investing just Rs 1500 per year

Posted by Neha Bhatia, Portal Buddy
In December 2009, Milagrow launched the SME Portal. It is commonly referred as “One Stop Destination” in terms of unique service offerings to the SME sector. Given its unique nature, Milagrow SME Portal is getting members from across the country, and from different segments such as industry, institutes, individuals and [...]

SME News: 08 February 2010

GITCO, MSME clusters to create awareness on intellectual property
… MSME clusters have decided to join hands with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to create awareness about intellectual property rights (IPRs). …
Source: Indian Express
Over 150 Indian cos to participate in Hannover fair in Germany
The Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) is taking about 75 companies, mainly [...]

Milagrow IMT Study: Practices for SME Development from Across the Globe

Posted By Rajesh Kumar
In India we have millions of MSMEs. We recently released few path breaking studies on SME sector ( 4 to be precise). One of them happens to be  ’Practices for SME Development from EU, North America and Latin America and Recommendations’. Here are few slides based on this report. This study has [...]

Open Source, Social Media and Why We Love Both.

Posted by Rajesh Kumar
Last week my personal blog set up on WordPress seem to give some strange error messages on a white screen instead of the regular post. These messages had no reason to be there since I had not touched the code for ages. All my efforts seem to fail and I almost reconciled [...]

SME News: 05 February 2010

How govt can help MSME sector grow
A recent study by Milagrow in collaboration with IMT faculty outlines the various challenges Indian MSMEs faces, highlights practices of countries across …
Source: Moneycontrol.com
Big boost for SMEs likely after Budget
The government’s IT outsourcing contracts may now have to be shared with SME players. Shankar Aggarwal, joint secretary in ministry [...]

SME News: 04 February 2010

ASEAN Workshop on ‘Sharing of Best Practices On The Establishment of SME …
The workshop is organised jointly by the Entrepreneurial Development Centre, Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources and SME Corporation Malaysia….
Source: Radio Television Brunei
MSME Min seeks Rs 5500 cr
The micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) ministry has asked the Centre for Rs … NTPC [...]

MSME Policy Alert 03 February

Report of the Task Force on MSME
The report of the Task Force on MSME provides a roadmap for the development and promotion of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The Report was presented to the Prime Minister by its Chairman, Shri T.K.A.Nair. Present on the occasion were the Minister for Micro, Small and Medium [...]

SME News: 03 February 2010

Report of the Task Force on MSME
The report of the Task Force on MSME provides a roadmap for the development and promotion of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). …
Source: Press Information Bureau (press release)
India to sustain SMEs funding facility for Zimbabwe
… for a 5.0 million USD facility to fund small and medium enterprises [...]

SME News: 02 February 2010

UC traction low amongst small business
… across the globe and India is no exception. However, the adoption is still in its nascent stages in small and medium enterprises (SMEs)," he added. …
Source: CIOL
‘Best time for Indian small & medium ITES Cos’
This is the best time for small and medium IT & Information Technology Enabled Services [...]

SME News: 01 February 2010

SMEs sparkle with 25-fold increase in net profit
If India Inc’s big boys have come up with sterling numbers in the third quarter ended December 2009, their small and medium (SME) counterparts are not far…
Source: Business Standard
Stimulus exit will be dangerous for growth: Ficci
For SME sector, projects are not taking off in large numbers as interest [...]