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The existential threat to the Jamaican society, economy, way of life and civilization is our failure to successfully and sustainably grow our GDP and so increase national prosperity for our citizens and subsequently equitably distribute prosperity gains throughout the society. A review of the evolution of global industrial development suggest that...
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... Second, "startup" refers to the time dimension of the business life cycle while "SME" refers to the size of the organization (Clarke, 2016). Shane &Venkataraman add that these expressions summarize the field: "entrepreneurship, risk taking, innovation and uncertainty" (Shane &Venkataraman 2000). ...
The startup failure rate in Egypt exceeds 95%, while research approaches this issue quantitatively, this study aims to understand entrepreneurs’ challenges through a designer’s lens. As research continues to explore how design adoption is growing in business in the West (Sheppard, Sarrazin, Kouyoumjian, & Dore, 2020), the contribution to knowledge in this study is defining how the Egyptian entrepreneurial ecosystem perceives and uses design, and generates internal factors of startup’s success, which are founder’s experience, hired caliber and culture. The qualitative investigation used Grounded Theory as the primary method, it starts by a simple aim, which is to understand three entrepreneurial ecosystem stakeholders’ design perception (entrepreneurs, designers and business experts). Accordingly the following research objectives were achieved; understanding designer and non designer entrepreneurs’ failure reasons, understanding the entrepreneurs’, business experts’ and event makers’ view of design, understanding designers’ feedback on working with startups and understanding the success factors of Expansion phase startups’ entrepreneurs.
The results direct towards four main issues; that failure reasons and challenges are submerged from lack of knowledge when it comes to self cognizance and practical skills. While the designers’ challenges are overwhelming, their miscommunication with their clients resulted in a lot of them. Also, numerous of similarities and linkages take place between findings in the first and final research objectives listed above.
In conclusion, through one open business model, three proposed services are presented to tackle the problems faced by designers and entrepreneurs. This research sheds light on the importance of defining design in Cairo’s entrepreneurial ecosystem by observing it through several stakeholders, then using design (Design as Storytelling + Service Design) as means to solve entrepreneurs’ challenges.
In March 2016, the Technology Innovation and Productivity Committee published a series of Draft Reports representing the deliberations on issues related to SME Competitiveness, Human Factors affecting Productivity, Public Sector Productivity, Labour Market Information Systems and National Systems of Innovation. These reports formed the basis of wide scale consultations across groups representing business, employees, government, the diaspora, youth, academia and civil society. The generous critique, comments and feedback have served to form and shape the set of policies now developed and recommended for further pursuit in furtherance of improving both innovativeness and productivity at the individual level and firm-level innovation, productivity and competitiveness
The Cross-Cutting Working Group was tasked with examining the recommendations emanating from the Working Groups on SME, Public Sector Productivity, Human Factors, National Systems of Innovation and on Labour Market Information and to present a synthesis of the major recommendations which emerged from these five Working Groups.
Two tables capture the results of this examination and are presented below.
Table 1: Major common cross-cutting themes from across the five TIPC Working Groups
Table 2: Cross-cutting recommendations by the subthemes of Technology, Innovation, Productivity and Social Affirmation
Finally, the views expressed herein is solely a product of the Technology, Innovation and Productivity Committee of the Labour Market Reform Commission and does indicate endorsement by the Government of Jamaica.
