Expertise

Our collective knowledge, experience, and skills span diverse fields and industries; allowing us to successfully work across a range of practice areas.

We harness our multi-faceted skill set to deliver innovative solutions that are tailored to the needs of our clients.

We understand the dynamics of developing policy, building out organisation structures, moulding teams and delivering funding and initiatives to meet the changing demands of the economy.

Below are five areas where we have particularly deep expertise.

Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment continues to grow globally facilitating trade, supply networks and technology transfer.

Our experts support the staff of government agencies focused on attracting high-value investment into their jurisdictions.

Lead generation and investment attraction.
Investor facilitation and investment conversion.
Investment appraisal.
Investor aftercare.
Digital investor services.
Messaging and communications.
Investment climate and advocacy.

Entrepreneurship, SMEs, and Export Development

Entrepreneurs and SMEs are the backbone of economies across the globe reaching deep into their local communities for skills and resources.

We support the staff of SME development agencies engage with local SMEs, assess company capabilities and identify and deliver a range of supports to foster company growth and expansion.

Economies are becoming ever more integrated into global supply chains. We support the staff of export promotion agencies engage with companies and to deliver high impact supports that enable internationalisation.

We also provide expertise in the following areas:

Developing SME sub-supply.
Consolidating value chains.
Property & services liaison.
Management development.
Manufacturing skills conversion.
R&D linkages.
IP and patents.

Research, Development & Innovation

Research, development and innovation increasingly underpin the competitiveness of products and service on the global stage. Governments are key in providing the core funding and infrastructure to enable innovative ideas and technologies become commercial products and services.

Our team supports Ministries, R&D agencies and innovation centres to deliver on this mandate.

Research funding design and administration.
Researcher career development pathways.
Optimisation of research resources & infrastructure.
Encouraging joint industry – research collaboration.
Research commercialisation and intellectual property.
Innovation funding and supports.
R&D tax incentives.

Economic Zones Development

Economic zones continue to provide critical infrastructure and support to foreign multinationals and local companies in the global supply chains.

We act as a partner supporting zones management to operate to international standards delivering best-in-class services to investors.

Economic zone planning and design.
Investor attraction and aftercare.
Property development & management.
Company licensing and facilitation.
Co-ordinated Government response for investors.
Customs regimes.
SME linkages and sub-supply.

Regulation

Regulatory oversight is becoming the scarce resource which companies need to bring new, complex products and services to market.

Regulation is moving centre stage as providers and users are further apart, outsourcing of government services quickens and municipal authorities take on increasing responsibility for where we live.

International good practice in industry consultation, drafting, testing and enforcement is becoming increasingly relevant to all regulators.

Regulatory frameworks.
Regulatory sandboxes.
Promoting awareness and compliance.
Monitoring and inspections.
Professional development.
Compliance and enforcement.
Dispute resolution.