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1. SMEWG Chair Report WimonkanKosumas, Ph.D. SMEWG Chair Deputy Director General Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Thailand 20th SME Ministerial Meeting | 7 September 2013 | Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
2. SMEWG STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2016 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.
3. SMEWG STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2016 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
4. Responding to Leaders’ Statements
5. CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS Engaging and collaborating withSME service organizations, ABAC and relevant private and public sector organizations, and other APEC for 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
6. SMEWG Projects in 2013
7. SMEWG Projects in 2013-2014
8. Multi-Year Projects 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 Improving Natural Disaster Resilience for APEC SMEs to Facilitate Trade and Investment Led by Chinese Taipei, Co-Sponsored by 17 Economies. Responds to Leaders Statements for natural disaster resilience among SMEs 6 workshops held across the APEC region covering natural disaster resilience, supply chain management, business continuity, and more.
9. SMEWG Public-Private Partnership Activities Business Ethics for APEC SMEs (USA) 1.1 Train-the-Trainer Workshop 1.2 Workshop on Stakeholder Awareness for the Healthcare Sector APEC Startup Accelerator Initiative – Startup Leadership Summit (Chinese Taipei) Improving Natural Disaster Resilience of APEC SMEs to Facilitate Trade and Investment - “Guidebook on Promoting SME BCPs (Chinese Taipei)
10. SMEWG Public-Private Partnership Activities 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.
11. APEC SME Monitoring Index 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% - 94.03%) SMEs contribution to exports (2.19% - 41%)
12. APEC SME Monitoring Index Challenges No common definition of SME Difficulty in collecting data Different forms of aggregating statistics Recommendations Focusing on small number of indicators Looking to OECD for guidance Working with external consultants SMEs Internationalization Index will be further developed and reported by 2016 (the end of 2nd SMEWG Strategic Plan)
13. SCE Comments on Strategic Plan 2013-2016 Comments Need to better define vision and mission Need more measurable KPIs Actions Champion economies (Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and USA) will work intersessionally to address these problems
14. Taipei 38th SMEWG Meeting The 38th SMEWG Meeting will be held in Taichung, Chinese Taipei
15. WimonkanKosumas, Ph.D. SMEWG Chair Deputy Director General Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Thailand Thank You. Questions?