Wimonkan Kosumas, Ph D. SMEWG Chair Deputy Director General Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Thailand SMEWG Chair Report 37 th SMEWG Meeting | 3-4 September 2013 | Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia

Three Priority Area Objectives: Priority Area 1: Building Management Capability, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Priority Area 2: Finance Priority Area 3: Business Environment, Market Access and Internationalization SMEWG STRATEGIC PLAN

2. Vision Statement The SMEWG shall – promote competitive, balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative, and secure growth of SMEs and MEs in the APEC region. – facilitate SMEs and MEs, individually and collectively, to attain their fullest growth potential and contribute to the achievement of APEC’s wider economic prosperity and integration goals. SMEWG STRATEGIC PLAN

Critical Success Factors Engaging and collaborating with – other APEC fora – SME service organizations – ABAC and relevant private and public sector organizations to ensure their awareness of and participation in SMEWG projects Direct participation of SMEs and MEs in the projects Paying special attention to youth, women entrepreneurs, and minority-owned SMEs and MEs SMEWG STRATEGIC PLAN

SMEWG Projects in 2013 PRIORITY AREA 1: Building Management Capability, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation APEC Startup Accelerator Initiative – Startup Leadership Summit 2013 Chinese TaipeiAPEC 19 th Ministerial Meeting Seminar on the Dynamics of SME: Informality and Women Entrepreneurship IndonesiaAPEC 19 th Ministerial Meeting APEC Women and the Economy Forum APEC Business Advisory Council International Symposium and Workshop - Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs through the Innovative Cooperative Business Model PeruAPEC SME Ministerial Meeting APEC Carbon Labeling Workshop KoreaMeeting of APEC Trade Ministers APEC Green Business ForumKoreaMeeting of APEC Trade Ministers Green Technology Initiative: Establishing the Green Technology Innovation Network to Support SMEs IndonesiaMeeting of APEC Trade Ministers Improving Natural Disaster Resilience of APEC SMEsChinese Taipei- APEC International Symposium and Workshop on Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs through the Innovative Cooperative Business Model Peru- Facilitation of women's business with the use of OVOP method in the APEC region JapanAPEC 19 th Ministerial Meeting APEC Women and the Economy Forum APEC Business Advisory Council

SMEWG Projects in PRIORITY AREA 2: Finance APEC SME Trade Finance ConferenceUnited StatesAPEC Business Advisory Council APEC SME Ministerial Meeting APEC Business Advisory Council PRIORITY AREA 3: Business Environment, Market Access and Internationalization Business Ethics Capacity Building for SMEs in the Medical Devices, Construction and Bio-Pharmaceutical Sectors United States APEC Ministerial Meeting Meeting of APEC Trade Ministers APEC Business Advisory Council Directory of Initiatives Used by APEC Economies to Assist SMEs’ Access to Global Markets AustraliaAPEC Business Advisory Council Research and assessment of prospects for development of an integrated information tool to stimulate involvement of SMEs of the Asian-Pacific region into the global trade system, global production and supply chains Russia APEC Business Advisory Council

Business Ethics for SMEs Led by United States, Co-Sponsored by 16 Economies Responds to Leaders Statement call for business ethics capacity building 8 workshops held in Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and the United States Covering 3 major SME sectors in APEC: construction, biopharmaceutical, medical device Global Value Chains (proposed) Proposal led by Australia and the United States Responds to Leaders Statement call for integrating SMEs into global value chains 6 workshops covering issues of intellectual property rights, human resources and financing relating to GVC Multi-Year Projects

1.Business Ethics for APEC SMEs (USA) 1.1 Train-the-Trainer Workshop 1.2 Workshop on Stakeholder Awareness for the Healthcare Sector 2.APEC Startup Accelerator Initiative – Startup Leadership Summit (Chinese Taipei) 3.Improving Natural Disaster Resilience of APEC SMEs to Facilitate Trade and Investment - “Guidebook on Promoting SME BCPs (Chinese Taipei) SMEWG Public-Private Partnership Activities

4. Collaboration with Inter-Pacific Bars Association (IPBA) –Asia Pacific Lawyers Database for SMEs –Guidebook on SME Cross Border Activities from Legal Perspective –Exchange of Experts –SMEWG Chair / ABAC / IPBA will discuss details of collaboration intersessionally. SMEWG Public-Private Partnership Activities

Major SMEs Indicators SMEs share of GDP Average: 39.4% (21% - 54%) SMEs share of total business population Average: 97.54% SMEs contribution to employment Average: 63.6% (24.7% %) SMEs contribution to exports (2.19% - 41%) SMEs Internationalization Index will be further developed and reported by 2016 (the end of 2 nd SMEWG Strategic Plan) APEC SME Monitoring Index

Thank You. Questions? Wimonkan Kosumas, Ph D. SMEWG Chair Deputy Director General Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Thailand