Urgensi Pengembangan Teknologi Tepat Guna Untuk UMKM di Kota Medan

Abstract

Appropriate Technology is a technology that fit with community needs and can be used to increase competitiveness, create value added, add productivity and reduce the cost of production or marketing. It also means, the technology appropriate to the cultural and economic conditions and its use must be environment friendly. To bridge the target application of appropriate technology for SMEs in the city of Medan, it needs fives strategies are: (1) Provide an understanding of the importance of Appropriate Technology (2) classifying SMEs on the use of Appropriate Technology (3) Increasing the competitiveness of SMEs through the Appropriate Technology (4) Develop regulations and policies of Appropriate Technology (5) financial assistance to SMEs for the development and utilization of Appropriate Technology.