Costed Action Plan for SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap enable business leaders to participate in regional policy-making and capacity development and that incentives be created for business participation within the regional context, and that the sector should be supported with adequate space created for the participation of the business associations. To satisfy such requirements, the sector, as priority, should: (i) Help the State to remove obstacles to doing business. (ii) Observe industrial and ethical business codes and compliance with environmental principles, rules and regulations. (iii) Interact with governments and regional policy structures and represent the interests of the private sector, i.e. it should satisfy the legitimacy criteria for dialogue and interaction with the public sector and other stakeholders, including development partners. (iv) Remain sharply focused on building interest in the regional policy organs. (v) Strengthen links with the national and regional Centres of Excellence. (vi) Develop capacities commensurate with the trying challenges of industrialization in the Twenty-First Century. (vii) Establish a working relationship with the public sector, geared towards the joint fulfilment of national and regional industrial development goals and targets. To ensure that these singular and complementary roles should be formalized for delivery at the successively higher structures of industrialization governance, at both the national and regional levels, it is imperative that the status of the private sector be elevated to participation in the policy and decision making structures of the SADC region. It is within this context that the Action Plan envisages a constituent sub-structure to integrate the private sector in the governance structure of the SADC industrialization process. 8.1.2 Centres of Excellence and Industrialization Governance Centres of excellence play an important role in the creation of new knowledge, products, technologies and facilitation of advanced industrial thrust and content. The new knowledge could be transferred through advanced technical and vocational training, research and innovation and bringing together industry and academia. Acting as think-tanks and industrial incubators, their participation in the industrialization architecture will enhance the policy and dialogue on future opportunities and challenges for industrialization, particularly in the context of regional and global value chain progression and integration of the SMEs in the process. The Action Plan should aim at establishing and strengthening relevant Centres of Excellence and fashion a credible architecture for their interaction within themselves as 62