M·CAM Encourages New Paradigms for Innovation Policy in Western Samoa

Date:  Wed, 2008-03-12

M·CAM Encourages New Paradigms for Innovation Policy in Western Samoa

Apia, Samoa — March 12, 2008 — In a new partnership with the Small Business Enterprise Center of Samoa (SBEC) based in Apia, M·CAM has supported initiatives that will re-imagine the paradigms of innovation support and economic development both in Samoa and in the Pacific Island Nations Forum initiative. Meeting with government ministers, traditional healers, NGOs, and small business leaders, M·CAM has formally committed to working with the public and private sector to foster more viable economic and cultural engagement with the global market by developing novel public/private partnerships for innovation deployment and funding.

Specifically, M·CAM has teamed with SBEC’s Director, Mrs. Margaret Malua to address business opportunities ranging from elei print making (traditional fabric designs) to development of treatments for HIV-AIDS and cancer to building intangible asset collateral markets for micro and small business finance.

For more information please visit SBEC.