As regional economic integration continues to take form and strengthen, APEC 2015 will orient policies and initiatives through the prism of its inclusive growth strategy. Integration, as such, will be defined and advanced not only for the benefit of economies but also for the people that drive economic growth. APEC 2015 is the promotion and advancement of inclusive growth in the Asia-Pacific region, hence the APEC 2015 theme, "Building Inclusive Economies, Building a Better World".

Under the theme “Building Inclusive Economies, Building a Better World,” APEC 2015 will focus on the following key priorities:

• Enhancing the Regional Economic Integration Agenda

• Fostering Small and Medium Enterprises’ Participation in Regional and Global Markets

• Investing in Human Capital Development

• Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities

The Economic Contribution of SMEs

                                                 Source from APEC Policy Support Unit

The economic contribution varies from each economy as indicated by the graph above.

For more detailed statistics on each member economy, the key indicators, and bilateral lingkages please visit the following link http://statistics.apec.org/

• Launched in early 2013, this medium-term project has significantly contributed to the development of start-ups in the APEC regions. During its first year, the Start-Up Accelerator Leadership Summit and the first APEC Challenge were organized in Chinese Taipei in August 2013. The APEC Accelerator Network (AAN) Forum was established in March 2014 and has 44 members from 14 APEC economies.
  
  

•  The goal of the project is to help SMEs better prepare for natural disasters through business continuity planning. Key deliverables of the project so far included the Guidebook on Promoting SMEs’ Business Continuity Planning (BCP), a 10-step model to help businesses develop their own business continuity plans. The Guidebook was translated into six languages, enabling accessibility for 40% of the world’s population.
  
  

• In addition, SMEWG has implemented activities that promote women entrepreneurship such as the Workshop on the Dynamics of SME: Informality and Women Entrepreneurship, Workshop on Promotion of New Business by Women’s One Village One Product, and Train-the-Trainer Course for Women SME Service Exporters. Innovative and green business is another focus of the Working Group.
  
  

• The dialogue exchanged information on impediments that SMEs and micro-enterprises encounter in accessing trade finance to better integrate into regional and international markets; and developed a set of recommendations, as a reference tool for APEC member economies and SMEWG, to tackle those impediments.

• The project’s objective is to improve access venture capital financing for innovative APEC SMEs by building better understanding of issues and challenges facing APEC economies in growing their domestic and international venture capital presence.

• Ethical business practices are key to regulate the close interaction between the industry and healthcare professionals, often resulting in conflicts of interest. Moreover, unethical practices affect patient care and costs. Since 2011, the multi-year project on SME Business Ethics Capacity Building for SMEs in the Medical Devices, Construction and Bio-Pharmaceutical Sectors has developed codes of ethics for the three sectors and established one of the largest ethics mentor networks in the Asia-Pacific region.
  
  

• APEC SMEWG is also implementing the APEC Business Ethics for SMEs Forum series, in which the first meeting was organized under theme “Building the Ethics Capacity of SMEs”. The project’s objectives were to facilitate regional cooperation that strengthens ethical business practices, with an emphasis on SMEs, by delivering capacity building and sharing best practices; providing a platform to address new and emerging business ethics challenges; and promoting on-going dialogue about the roles of all stakeholders in ensuring an ethical business environment.
  
  

• This workshop is the first in a series to promote viable and cost-effective solutions to help facilitate the integration of small and medium-sized companies into Global Value Chains (GVCs), particularly through leveraging SME relationships with multinational corporations.
  
  
  

1. APEC Industry Forum on Addressing Barriers to Trade in Health Care Products Helping SMEs Participate in Global Value Chain [CTI] ( 8 June 2015)
   
   
2. APEC SME Business Matching and Internship Consortium for Global Value Chain Integration (8-9 June 2015)
   
   
3. Supply Chain Capacity Building for Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SME): Supply Chain Management, Cold Chain Storage and Technical Regulations (8-9 June 2015)
   
   
4. Facilitating Small & Medium Size Enterprises (SME) Trade through Better Understanding of Non-Tariff Measures in the Asia Pacific Region (1st Workshop) (8-9 June 2015)
   
   

1. SME Finance Forum (22 Sept 2015)
   
   
2. APEC Workshop on Facilitating SME Trade through Better Understanding of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) in the Asia Pacific Region (21-22 Sept 2015)
   
   

1. Preparation of minit ceraian, budget, and logistic arrangements for the respective programmes
   
   
2. APEC Summit and Training Workshop on Promoting SME Business Continuity Planning, Chinese Taipei (27-28 July 2015)
   
   
3. 2015 APEC Business Ethics Forum, Manila Philippines (19-20 August 2015)
   
   
4. APEC Harmonisation of Standards Project Workshop, Sydney, Australia (4-5 Nov 2015)
   
   
5. APEC E-Commerce Forum, Jeju, Korea, (26-28 Nov 2015)