KUALA LUMPUR: SME Corp Malaysia is expecting 50 local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be certified with the 1-Innovation Certification for Enterprise Rating and Transformation (1-InnoCERT) by year-end.
“The 1-InnoCERT is a certification programme adapted from the Korean Innobiz model. Its core functions are to identify, certify and recognise innovative SMEs through stringent and vigorous certification processes to enable SME Corp to provide more efficient assistance, customised to the needs of the SME,” its chairman Datuk Dr Mohamed Al Amin Abdul Majid said at the soft launch of the SME Innovation Award 2013 yesterday.