Why is optimization important?
- The QP/QI infrastructure should assist national enterprises in accessing foreign markets with products, produce and/or services of the requisite quality. It is crucial therefore that the QP is used to create and maintain an appropriate link between the services offered by QI institutions and the intended markets and consumers. Given the many and varied challenges in successfully and sustainably accessing foreign markets, and noting that the inherent technical complexities for each sector or product can be significantly different, the QP should promote the need and establish mechanisms to identify a set of agreed priority sectors, products and services. It is also important that these are periodically reviewed.
- A set of agreed priority sectors, products and services assists in determining and optimizing the level of national and regional QI appropriate at a certain time for each of the selected areas, taking account of current levels of operation and acceptance in the market place and further QI capacity and capability development.
Definition
The key principle of Optimization emphasizes the pursuit of the most effective and efficient use of applicable, and available, national, regional, and international situation(s) and/or resource(s) when creating a QP.