Cluster Development for Metal Work Industries

The contribution of micro, small and medium Scale industries towards employment generation, alleviation of poverty and inequalities and development of backward areas is recognized worldwide. Although, these industries have great role in economic development of our country, they doesn't benefit as their potential due to their problems related to their size. Most of the problems are lack of: market, skilled manpower, working capitals, information and low level of competitiveness. In addition there is lack of cooperation among themselves, which limits sharing of resources between them. Micro and small industries clustering is a group of these industries, producing similar products, located in a geographical proximity, sharing resources (like knowledge, technology etc) among themselves in order to overcome their internal and/or external challenges, and that compete each other but also cooperate with one another. The study is concerned on cluster development of micro and small metal work industries in Addis Ababa city.