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Interagency network of enterprise assistance providers: an unusual partnership of government agencies and private businesses communicate and collaborate to enhance services to small business.
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The Public Manager
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March 22, 2008
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Less than ten years ago, twenty million small businesses across America faced the catastrophic year 2000 crisis! Y2K, as it was called, threatened computers around the world because they were based on a DD/MM/YY formula. This formula made computers believe that the year 2000 was actually the year 1900, rendering them unable to correctly calculate any information dealing with time.
Enter a fairly young public-private program--the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), headquartered at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)--which focuses on assisting small manufacturers around the country. Through collaboration, MEP was able ...