1、 Empowering Tomorrow:APEC Women Entrepreneurs in Startups APEC Policy Support Unit January 2025 Prepared by:Nextrade Group Produced for:Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Policy Support Unit Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat 35 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119616 Tel:(65)6891-9600 Fax:

2、(65)6891-9690 Email:psugroupapec.org Website:www.apec.org APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC#224-SE-01.22 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this licens

3、e,visit https:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en.The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of APEC Member Economies.The authors would like to thank the interviewees for their time and contributions and the members of the APEC Po

4、licy Partnership on Women and the Economy for their valuable comments.3 Empowering Tomorrow:APEC Women Entrepreneurs in Startups,PPWE6 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures.4 List of Tables.4 List of Case Studies.5 Executive summary.6 Introduction.8 I.Defining and measuring the prevalence of startups,wo

5、men entrepreneurs and women-led startups across APEC.9 a.Defining startups 9 b.Number of startups across APEC economies 11 c.Share of“scalable”and“technology-driven”startups 16 d.Women-led startups 18 e.Results in sum 18 II.Performance,success drivers and challenges of women entrepreneurs and women-

6、led startups in APEC economies:survey and interview data.20 a.Review of literature 20 Performance of women entrepreneurs and startups.21 b.Performance and challenges of women entrepreneurs:insights from data and interviews 25 III.Policy solutions to enable women entrepreneurs and women-led startups