PROCESS OF STRATEGY ELABORATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES STARTED

21.05.2009.

Palilula Municipality has started the process of elaboration of the Strategy of small and medium enterprises of Palilula. Taking into account the small systems, micro, small and medium enterprises are featured with flexibility and they can easily and faster react in the new formed situation in the market and use their own size in the gaining profit. Beside, in our economic circles it is said that actually these micro, small and medium enterprises will be a sort of basic point of future economic development, so that they will, in this way, replace  big systems loss. Recognizing this role and its comparative advantage, Palilula Municipality has an obligation and a role to help and support the development of small and medium enterprises. Because of all these points we coordinate the work on the strategy of SME sector.

The objective of the strategy is an improvement of the surrounding for the business of small and medium enterprises and improvement of their competitiveness, both at home and foreign market, so the reducing of gray economy and poverty in Palilula municipal area would appear and in this way widely in Nis and the region itself. Our strategy should make some kind of frame for dynamic, competitive and export –oriented sector of small and medium enterprises from Palilula territory, the most significant social effects that should be created with this strategy are the increasing of employment and export, increasing of payment deficit, regional economic development.

Beside, with the realization of strategic objectives of this particular strategy, and with the realization of the action plan, a number of small and medium enterprises from Palilula should come closer to the level of EU, but should also function due to the principles and standards of EU.

Together with the development of this strategy, we make stronger the capacities for using pre-accessing structural funds of EU and getting developmental sources that will allow the start of the production. By making this action plan of the strategy we will set the guidelines for future projects that we will all be involved with only one aim – development of Palilula.

With this strategy we want to define what we want to obtain and the direction that we should take, so that straying would be stopped in the questions of what and where to produce. With this document we set the basics for better information exchange and cooperation of SME sector, so that we would not have doubled capacities, not enough quality of products, products that do not have their market at all, money that is spent irrationally for the structuring of new objects  if there are objects already existing…As a support to the realization of these objectives, Palilula Municipality opens Center for entrepreneurship that will have a role to make easier functioning of SME sector. We will put our efforts to, apart from the service as such, become also partner in SME sector, since the development of the enterprise bring only good to all the citizens from Palilula. Also, with the opening of the office for Local economic development we will also try to follow the work of this sector through these phases, to be the connection with the investors, to work on the projects together with the entrepreneurs all with the aim to attract foreign investments, but also to influence to the reducing of bureaucracy type of procedures ad reducing of certain expenses.

Palilula Municipality, together with other municipalities of Nis region, participates in the Programme of local economic development on the Balkans – LEDIB. This five year programme has for its objective the support for local economic development with the focus on the development of small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship.