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Introduction

Tips is a specialized network that provides support and information to business enterprises. Tips supplies scores of information-based services in the area of technology, product development, finance, economics, technical and quality regulations and environmentally safe production. These services are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. In addition, Tips utilizes the latest technology to design and develop information tools and services specific to individual user needs. Tips manages global information flows for trade and technology transaction in:

Agro-Industries	Energy	Electronics
Biotechnologies	Food Processing	Machinery
Pharmaceuticals	Packaging	Mining
Fisheries	Building Materials	Business Opportunities
Textiles	Chemicals

A Brief History of the Tips Network

Tips began operation in 1986, the same year the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Fund for Science and Technology (UNFST) designed the Network’s original project. Currently, Tips is being implemented by DEVNET, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, with Category-I Consultative Status granted by the United Nations Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC). The important contribution of the Italian Government and the support of participating countries, channeled through the UNDP in Tips’ initial stages of development, were both determined factors in the Network’s success.

Why Tips is Needed?

In business, information is the first in a series of action leading to a transaction. Tips provides you information to help you with your export program, business development, technology upgrading and trade contracts abroad.

Traditionally, Western industrialized countries have been the source of most flows of technical information to the developing countries. Their technological lead and control of communications systems have enabled them to dominate the international market place. Many countries of the South have been building up their own research and development capabilities, at times revealing in technical excellence the best that the West has to offer. It is specially so in the case of technologies for small-scale production units and where materials come mainly from the developing countries.

To businessmen, industrialists, and manufacturers, Tips means Income: from sales of technologies, products and services they offer, from saving resulting from procurement of appropriate technologies, products and services at reduced costs from suppliers in the developing countries. Many developing countries have built up a significant industrial base. Technologies either developed or adapted by them, are often more suitable of easily transferable to other developing countries than those available in the West.

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