South Africa to adopt Italy's business cluster model
(AGI) Cape Town, Oct 2 - Foreign companies "are welcome inSouth Africa, provided they enable small local businesses toparticipate in their value chain", said the country's SmallBusiness Development Minister, Lindiwe Zulu, at the SouthAfrica-Italy Summit in Cape Town. "The Italian collaborativemodel of creating technology and production clusters, whichincrease volume and quality through local integration of smalland medium-sized enterprises in the supply chain, is exactlywhat the country needs," she said. "South Africa is full ofsmall and large companies that do not work together. We mustchange this situation and the cluster model