STATE POLICY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES: EXPERT OPINIONS
The article analyzes the actual problem of forming a state policy for the entrepreneurship development. The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the main directions of this policy in 54 countries, according to experts from these countries. The study is based on information provided in the report on the global entrepreneurship monitoring project for 2018. In the process of research developed models that describe performance indicators of 6 areas of public policy, which include: financial assistance to entrepreneurs, government support of entrepreneurs, adaptation of the tax system and administrative regulation to the peculiarities of entrepreneurship, the availability of effective state programs of entrepreneurship development, entrepreneurial education in schools, entrepreneurial education of adults. The density functions of the normal distribution are used as models. The results of the study allowed us to determine average values and ranges of variation for most countries values of indicators describing the 10-point scale, experts’ opinions on the effectiveness realized in modern economies, directions of the state policy of entrepreneurship development. Countries with high and low values of each of the 6 indicators were identified. It is noted that the highest ratings are noted in 2 areas, namely, the entrepreneurial education of adults and the availability of effective state programs for the entrepreneurship development. The most pessimistic experts have assessed the achievements in the field of entrepreneurial training of schoolchildren. A comparative analysis of the values of each of the 6 indicators analyzed in Russia and foreign countries is presented.
Keywords: entrepreneurs, state policy of entrepreneurship development, financial assistance, entrepreneurship support, entrepreneurship training, global monitoring of entrepreneurship, tax system, administrative regulation.
Highlights:
♦ a method for evaluating indicators that characterize the experts opinions on the effectiveness of the implementation of the 6 main directions of state policy for the entrepreneurship development in modern national economies based on the construction of economic and mathematical models is proposed;
♦ the density functions of the normal distribution that approximate the empirical data are developed;
♦ the analysis of the effectiveness of the main directions of public policy in 54 countries based on information for 2018 is presented.;
♦ a comparative analysis of the 6 studied indicators in Russia and foreign countries is conducted.
Yulia S. Pinkovetskaya, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the Economic Analysis and Public Administration Department of Ulyanovsk State University.