The Scheme supports all small enterprises operating in townships and rural areas that meet the qualifying criteria including but not limited to the following sectors:
Clothing & Textile
Bakeries & Confectionaries
Tshisanyama and Cooked Food
Retail (including restaurants, car washes, general dealers etc.)
The BIDC is a CSIR initiative to provide technical product and process development support to Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises (SMMEs) in the biomanufacturing sector, with the aim of creating and expanding biomanufacturing activity and associated job creation.