To China and Beyond: An SME Perspective
Trade with China can conjure up many visions of excitement ranging from the exotic imagery of the Silk Road through to the long awaited announcement late last year of the establishment of New Zealand’s first official Chinese angel investment network. And while the newspapers tend to dwell on the larger deals (large, that is, from New Zealand’s perspective) there is a considerable amount of smaller scale trade going on ‘under the radar’. A few years ago, I mentored a group of exporters who were taking part in a Small Business Development Program through Whitireia New Zealand. The businesses were all small scale enterprises with big ideas and a hunger to make things happen. What was...
