Empretec India's approach to capacity-building is multi-stakeholder, multi-year and multi-disciplinary. In a usual setting, governments provide policy; trans-national corporations buy; MSMEs sell; banks provide the necessary credit.. Here, Empretec acts as a binding agent and attempts to forge meaningful partnerships that deliver value to all stakeholders.

Linkage inputs include access to markets, technology, and finance, which are delivered using a catalogue of Business Development Services (BDS) involving a top-down approach, starting with interventions with the first few tiers of supply and distribution networks of larger and more developed enterprises and working our way down to smaller enterprises with potential for value chain integration. Specialized EDS for the curated list of HiEERAs provide the following demand-driven services: