meeting the environmental standards set by the eu and other trading blocs will be essential to smes seeking opportunities in export markets however in light of evidence that this network may not be focusing adequately on facilitation and diagnostic services to help startups and micro and small enterprises overcome their problems as opposed to primarily offering information the provision of services being offered to entrepreneurs and smes by the ksu and ksi networks should be examined to encourage the development of more highgrowth firms policy measures will have to be strengthened in the areas of seed and venture capital advice and counselling mentoring diagnostics services provision of valueadded information on technologies business models and business and market opportunities both domestic and global