The 9th APEC Business Efficiency and Success Target (BEST) Award seeks to distinguish, spread and encourage the best practices of Women-owned SMEs across the APEC economies. It envisages collection and systemization of the experience of individual economies, particularly, through organization of a competition of the APEC best women’s projects and their corporate success stories. The project will gather nominee profiles to compete in the framework of the BEST Award and provide a digital publication on APEC Official web-site of the list of winners in all nominations and information on their business models, competencies, competitive advantages and tangible and non-tangible assets considered as necessary prerequisites for women entrepreneurship development.