Generate synergies E-competency facilitates industrial networking, clustering and joint marketing and reinforces backward linkages between exporters and local suppliers. Combine export promotion with investment promotion E-competency is an effective investment promotion tool and, at the level of the individual firm, essential to the development of a partnership with a foreign investor. The book has been written as a basic guide for those concerned with masterminding national participation in the global digital economy. In other words, it has been written for those involved in designing and managing national export strategy. Specifically, that the effectiveness of national export strategy is determined by the effectiveness of the public-private sector partnership at each stage of the strategy development and management cycle.
Government is the key.
Only government can do anything about incentives, facilitating venture capital, reducing tariffs and regulations and creating an environment conducive to this business. Peru As Executive Forum 2000 also made clear, given the dynamics and complexities of the digital economy, this partnership should ideally involve a number of players, each contributing specialized expertise to, and having specific responsibilities in, the strategy development and management process. The consensus was that circumstances in the majority of developing and transition economies require public sector leadership. Many of the challenges of the digital economy require strategic decisions. Only the government can tackle the various issues as a national priority.