This issue carries, as its theme article, a summary of the 25-year-long TERI–SDC partnership project in India’s MSME sector, which has come to an end in December 2017. The article charts the course of this pioneering project from its genesis in the early 1990s—a time when the Indian MSME sector was struggling to come to grips with the changes and challenges brought about by liberalization of the nation’s economy.