Given its great capacity to generate new jobs and contribute to the economic growth and the innovation, small and medium sized enterprises (SMES) play a key role in the current economy.

The FUMEC Technological and Business Assistance System (SATE) facilitates the cooperation between actors, organizations and strategic programs with the aim to take advantage of the most important experience at national and international levels and support the growth of Mexican SMES.

SATE attends high growth potential companies in specific regions and sectors such as: information technologies, aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, plastics, among others.

A network of Technological Business Advisors (ATES) with the entrepreneurial and technical capacity to attend the companies provides all the services offered by SATE. Some of these services are:

• Development of managerial skills
• Improvement of entrepreneurial capacity.
• Creation of technology roadmaps.
• Cash flow statement.
• Articulation with the academy and specialized consultants.
• Links with SMES support programs.

SATE is a program that draws on the best experiences of SMES support like the US Small Business Technology Development Center (SBTDC) and the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) of Canada, adapting them to the need of the mexican companies to help them to growth.