IDL works on developing and strengthening the private sector in emerging markets by sharing its research and expertise on entrepreneurship, small business development and leadership, enabling environment, finance, value chains and markets and building partnerships. In all these topics, we take a non-western view in the sense that we use the knowledge in development economics, cultural anthropology and sociology that focusses on developing countries. We use our wide range of industry-academia linkages to draw on the expertise of our partners in developing countries and use the practical experience we have acquired in many international education and capacity building programs to develop new insights.