These include insufficient professionalisation and an artisanal approach to management, sub-optimal involvement of SMEs, weakness in technology transfers, a shortage of international projects, a modest performance in eco-product and eco-technology exports, complex governance that hobbles the development of public-private partnerships, and conventional financing approaches and still-limited participation by investors and venture capital. The central government could facilitate this process by designing a framework conducive to such collaboration and initiating an SME eco-technologies pact. The region, for its part, could institute a sovereign fund to stabilise the most innovative SMEs, as has been done in the Loire Valley. Public research vouchers could be granted to small enterprises working in the area of green technologies.