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| What is Technology4sme.net? |
The Technology4sme.net is an online
tool to facilitate technology transfer and business development with a
particular focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Asia Pacific
region. It maintains a comprehensive database of technology offers and requests
under various sectors as well as technology suppliers and seekers from the Asia
Pacific region.
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| What is Technology Market? |
Technology Market brand is
promoted as a web-based market space for technology suppliers and seekers to
exchange their technology offers and requests. It allows for quick search for
suitable potential technology partners, and also provides their contact details
to reach out to each other.
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| Who owns the technology4sme website? |
The Technology4sme website is developed
by the Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT), a regional
institution of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (UNESCAP). The APCTT is based in New Delhi, India, where as the
ESCAP headquarters are located in Bangkok, Thailand.
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| What is your objective? |
Our objective is to see the
technology4sme website to evolve as an online platform where technology
suppliers and seekers from all over the world can interact and exchange their
technology offers and requests.
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| How is this website different from others dealing with
the similar issues? |
The APCTT, the developer of the
technology4sme website, being a UN agency has the advantage of sourcing the
content through its network of reliable government agencies representing its
member countries from the Asia Pacific region. Given the member country
network, this website has the advantage of unparallel outreach that encompasses
whole of Asia Pacific region.
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| How much does it cost to be member? |
Participation in the Technology Market
is FREE! Being a United Nations agency, the APCTT is not a profit making
organization. We do not charge the users for the services provided on the
technology4sme website. However, we expect the website users to keep us
informed on the technology discussions with the partners they identify from our
website so that we are able to analyse the usefulness of the website and make
further improvements.
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| How can I add my technology offer or request? |
Click on the Tech Offer or Tech Request
link, register yourself with all the contact details, fill the technology offer
and/or technology request form and click on the submit button. Your submission
will soon be made available online for potential technology suppliers and
seekers from around the world.
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| How can I search a particular technology offer or
request? |
You can start by putting suitable keywords in the search field that describe your search well. If you know about the broad sector under which your technology offer or request falls, you can go to the sector list and search appropriately. If you are interested in a particular country, you can go to the country link to have the country-wise list of technology offers and requests.
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| For how long my technology offer or request stay on the website?
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| Your technology offer or request stays on the website
for a period of 6 months. However, you have the option of renewing your
submission to continue to be on the website. |
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| Are technology offers and requests validated or verified?
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Each submission is reviewed by the APCTT administrator to make sure that the data is complete and relevant. But, the APCTT does not verify, test, validate or certify the technology offer or request to determine if it meets the stated claims. Since the contact details of potential technology partners are available online, the interested parties are free to communicate directly with each other, while keeping the APCTT informed of the communication.
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