The 21^st century presents new challenges and opportunities for SMEs to enhance competitiveness and boost economic growth in China and ASEAN alike. SMEs will be a source of entrepreneurship and innovation. The new breed of world-class SMEs which survive the evolution will possess outstanding attributes including ability to compete globally. SMEs can leapfrog bigger players in niche markets and enjoy more than linear success in the knowledge-based economy. To realize this, they need to build up competence, exploit and harness technology and knowledge for growth and establish strategic alliances, improve efficiency, strengthen capabilities and exploit new opportunities in every aspect of their business.

Meanwhile, in the Knowledge Based Economy or the New Economy, prolonging the life cycle or shifting the Plato of the growth curve has inevitably become the “do-or-die” mission of enterprises. Besides, paradigm has been shifting whilst global situation is becoming more and more unpredictable and volatile, be it natural or political. Therefore, SMEs, and of course entrepreneurs, must transform, otherwise deform.  Having fully appreciated the dilemma of SMEs, the speaker has identified the composite solution required in three major areas: Business Model Innovation, Capital Innovation and Opportunities Platform. The speaker has further condensed the source for the solution upon the “Enterprise Capital Eco-system” within which the three major components react to provide the vital transformation. He will share with participants how both enterprises and entrepreneurs can capitalize effectively and efficiently on the mechanism evolved from the eco-system in order to scale up and sustain their enterprises.