DTI launches innovation hub for start-up MSMEs
Export Development Council
July 11, 2016

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) – Export Marketing Bureau (EMB) launched the Negosyo Center Plus: Innovation Hub on 6 June 2016 at the DTI International Building, Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City.

The Innovation Hub offers coworking space to technology-based Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and a relational form of assistance that will lead to collaboration within the start-ups community. It provides a venue for start-ups to deal with prospective clients, network with government agency experts and conduct businesses.

The Negosyo Center Plus: Innovation Hub aims to usher in a new breed of businesses that will thrive in the digital economy, to create an enabling environment conducive to sustainable growth of the startups and to create new Philippine products and service categories in the Information Era that will differentiate the Philippines.

The DTI, being the lead agency tasked to implement the Philippine Export Development Plan, provides the venue for such interaction to enhance the innovative capability of the export sector.□