Hong Kong

Aims of the Institute

The Institute for Independent Business has five main aims:

To bring to independent business the most practical advice and timely ideas from knowledgeable experts and business innovators; to open doors to important and profitable opportunities; to raise the professional standards of independent business practice; to enhance the image of business leaders and all other executives working within the independent business sector.
To advance the understanding of the workings of independent business by research in relevant fields, alone or in co-operation with other interested and competent bodies.
To provide research facilities pertaining to independent business for the benefit of and use by other persons or bodies.
To disseminate such findings and information as may be useful to the operators of independent business by all means expedient, more particularly through training courses, educational programmes, conferences, journals and other publications or media.
To educate and train those working within the independent business sector to such a standard that they may confidently work independently at the appropriate level.