# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第十二条 (Article 12)

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- Law: 中小企業基本法 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act), 昭和三十八年法律第百五十四号
- English title "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
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- Provision: 第十二条 (Article 12)（経営の革新の促進） — address `art-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第十二条（経営の革新の促進） — Promotion of Business Innovation
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-12</sup>

  **第一項**  国は、中小企業者の経営の革新を促進するため、新商品又は新役務を開発するための技術に関する研究開発の促進、商品の生産又は販売を著しく効率化するための設備の導入の促進、商品の開発、生産、輸送及び販売を統一的に管理する新たな経営管理方法の導入の促進その他の必要な施策を講ずるものとする。
  <sup>art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-12/par-1</sup>
  In order to promote business innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises, the State is to take the necessary measures, including the promotion of research and development of technology for developing new products or new services, the promotion of the introduction of facilities for significantly improving the efficiency of the production or sale of products, and the promotion of the introduction of new management methods that manage the development, production, transport and sale of products in a unified manner.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業基本法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/338AC0000000154/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業基本法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/822), retrieved 2026-10-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-002, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06