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@ Oct 2021
Lee Kuan Yew School of Policy Studies
National University of Singapore
https//www.linkedin.com/in/victortay
email: victortay@globalcatalystadvisory.com
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Discussion of Singapore SME Internationalization - Victor TayVictor Tay
Chairing of Discussion of SME Internationalization Policies
@ Oct 2021
Lee Kuan Yew School of Policy Studies
National University of Singapore
https//www.linkedin.com/in/victortay
email: victortay@globalcatalystadvisory.com
Singapore was founded in 1819 as the global trading post by British Sir Stamord Raffles. With that Singapore has become a unique country with Trade 3x its GDP and per capital at $65k/capital. Singapore's SMEs forms 99.1% of its economy. They are borned global, what is the status of their internationalization? What will accelerate their internationalization process?
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Chairperson for Discussion @ November 2021
Lee Kuan Yew School of Policy Studies
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Discussion on Regulatory Sandboxes Towards an Innovation-led Economy - victor...Victor Tay
Chairperson for Discussion @ November 2021
Lee Kuan Yew School of Policy Studies
National University of Singapore
Singapore was early pioneer in effecting regulatory sandboxes in 2014 for fintech players for the startups and businesses experimentation. By 2017/2018 Singapore becomes one of the most vibrant fintech ecosystem and cradle for startups in the world.
What is the Effect of Regulatory Sandboxes policies towards other industries and sectors especially driving towards an Innovation-led Economy.
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Buckinghamshire Business First
1. Is there a solution?
Growth Hub
Sustainability
11th May 2017
2. Tell me about the new website…
Buckinghamshire
Business First
Welcome to Buckinghamshire
• Excellent road, rail and air networks
• Oxford – Cambridge – London Arc
• Buckinghamshire has the 3rd highest productivity among the 39 LEPs
• GVA grew by 5.1% in 2014
• 42% of population have a degree
• 2nd highest level of start ups
BUT…..
• Average house price in Bucks is £397,613
• Near full employment
• Highest population of micros in UK
• Lowest no of scale ups in UK with only an additional 2 from 2012 – 14
• Only 75 businesses with more than 250 employees
3. From humble beginnings
Established in 2011 for the benefit of the Buckinghamshire business
community by 10 business leaders, £100k and a team of 4.
Buckinghamshire Business First is now approaching 10,000 members
strong.
4. Our community
• We have approaching 10,000 small, medium and large business in
membership
• Penetration of private sector workforce in Bucks has reached 67.28%
• Over 2,000 unique visitors to the website each week
• Over 7,000 published profiles in our business directory
• 150 Investing members… £60k of investment from membership packages
8. Encouraging members to work together
Our brand new website launched end in 2016 with a whole new look and lots of features that
allows our members to do more business both locally and nationally. Invested members can add
feature rich content to the website, manage preferences, promote their products and services
and provide support to our membership.
9. New investment packages
Membership is free but by co-investing in Buckinghamshire Business First local businesses and strategic
partners can become more actively engaged with our community.
10. Full of clever stuff
Members can sign into their personalised dashboard to receive tailored news, events,
contracts and offers all based on business interests. The more members use the site the
more intuitive it becomes.
11. Member profiles
Members have control over their
business profile online and are
able to:
• Set preferences and add
interests
• Add content including
testimonials, jobs, events &
contracts
• See how many times their
profile has been viewed
• Measure how content is
performing
13. Virtual Adviser
New online diagnostic
launched
last week:
• Provides members with
bespoke report highlighting
areas for improvement &
links to events and
resources to help
• Linked to ERDF/ ESF
funding schemes
• Information fed back into
CRM to help inform future
support and strategy for
the Growth Hub
15. The Gaps
• Skills – Matching scale ups with employees with the right skills
• Aspiration and leadership skills
• Export gap – finding new markets
• Finance gap – raising capital and being investment ready
• Infrastructure gap – Massive shortage of commercial property
• Digital gap – Up skilling our micro businesses
16. Next 6 Months
ERDF funding will support….
• 1:1 business advice providing 12 hours of intensive support
• Needs Analysis – Virtual Adviser
• Opportunities to more easily work with HEIs for R&D, knowledge
transfer
• A new Investment Readiness service
• Grants to incentivise growth activity, service take up at universities and
reduce energy usage
• Additional Incubation / co-working space with on site business
support
17. The Offer cont…….
We will target marketing to businesses which are:
• Identified scale up cos
• Cos in recognised growth sectors
• Established businesses
• Turnover of more than £250,000
• We will further develop our business community and encourage peer to
peer and mentoring support - this is often where the magic starts
18. Sector specialist adviser leads
Business
Support
for
Growth
Rural
Start Up
Manu-
facturing
Life
Sciences
Inward
Invest
Retail
Food and
Drink
Connectiv
i-ty
Tourism
Digital
Creative
and
Media
19. Support programmes provided by
Buckinghamshire Business First
1:1 Support
•Inward Invest
•1:1 support with
specialisms in
manufacturing,
life sciences,
digital, retail,
creative and
media, start up
•Low carbon
energy advice
•Hotline
telephone
support
•Peer to Peer
•Mentoring
•Start Up advice
1:Many
Support
•Workshops
•Networking
•Focus on
events
•Sector based
events
Access to
Finance
Investment
Readiness
•GRANTS:
•Leader
•Low Carbon
Workspace
•Velocity Growth
•HALO grants
•Knowledge
Transfer (Bucks
2020)
Skills
•Brokering
university
services
•Training needs
analysis
•Opps in Bucks
•Wannabe – the
future workforce
Connectivity
/ Digital
•Superfast
broadband
Online
Support
•Virtual Adviser
•Online Business
Support Finder
•Tools and
Templates
•Online
calculators
•Ask a member
•Business
directory
•Procurement
portal
•Research
•Enewsletters
Workspace
•Hot desking in
the Hubs at
Chesham,
Aylesbury and
Saunderton
•Incubation
space in
Aylesbury and
Saunderton
20. Outputs in the next 12 months
• 660 businesses having undertaken a diagnostic for business needs analysis
• 100+ grants provided to facilitate jobs and business growth
• 100 businesses getting 12 hrs business support
• 20 businesses started on a investment readiness programme
• Increased incubation space for micro businesses backed up onsite business
support
• Demand led workshops particularly on exporting and sector specialisms
How our story started …
Back in 2011 a group of local entrepreneurs and business leaders sat round a table to discuss how businesses could have a stronger voice at the tables that could encourage a more business friendly environment for Buckinghamshire. Our founder investors raised £100,000 and Buckinghamshire Business First was born, with a board of 10 local business leaders, a team of 4 and a membership liability of £1 each
Our community now consists of over 8000 members who can now all take advantage of offers, events contracts and support and expertise from the community.
Fast forward to 2016…. and what have we achieved?
Buckinghamshire Business First now has over 8,000 members representing over 61% of the private sector workforce in the county.
We have delivered grants of over £10 million – supported the contribution of an additional £11 m of GVA
Helped connect over 65k homes and premises through the delivery of the connected counties project and are actively lobbying to get 100% of Buckinghamshire covered and up to superfast speeds.
We have provided support to over 11,538 businesses, and supported the growth of almost 2,131 jobs locally and the introduction of 49 new companies through our inward investment support.
As one local business told us “ just having you there as support has made all the difference” and that’s what we’re here to do.
We have established three business ‘ Hubs’ providing free office space. BBF was commended in the House of Commons last year and we were a ‘Growth Hub’ before the concept of ‘Growth Hub’s’ existed.
And for every £1 invested in BBF – we’ve delivered back £43 of investment of economic value in return last year. In short, we’re not doing too badly, but we want to do more.
Which is why we’ve recently launched our brand new website which we think presents a great opportunity for members to get more actively involved on a win win basis. It’s been 5 years since we developed our previous website.
This website has been in the planning for a year and in intense development for the last six months. We’ve involved a number of members and done a range of user testing along the way to ensure this site is capable of meeting the needs of our members.
Members told us that they wanted more interaction with the Bucks business community, more business with local customers and visibility on local contracts so that’s what we’ve delivered.
We have also introduced 3 co-investment levels that will provide you with greater opportunities to promote your business, network, win contracts, make special offers, host your own events, shout about your successes and much more through the website.
Once you’re logged in you’ll get your own personalised homepage
The site is intuitive so the more you use it the more tailored your experience will become.
You also get to manage your business and personal profile. Tell us what information you’re interested in and …
a great new feature is that you’ll be able to see how many times your business profile has been viewed by other members.
Not only will your business benefit from investing in itself – you’ll also be able to pat yourself on the back and shout about the fact that you are playing an active part in helping other businesses and start ups to benefit from support of a movement which will ensure that Buckinghamshire remains in the top spot of locations to start grow and run a business in the UK ….