SPATIAL POTENTIAL OF SMALL ENTERPRISES: ESSENCE AND METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF IMPLEMENTATION
The article reveals the essence of the spatial potential of small enterprises: the author’s definition is given, structural characteristics are characterized, and the possibility of using it as a tool for managing the regional economy is justified. Methodical bases of spatial potential implementation of small enterprises at the regional (subject of Federation) and sub-regional levels are developed, which allows on the basis of specific features of regional development to produce a “fine-tuning” region economic policies.
Keywords: region, regional economy, spatial potential, small enterprise, small business, spatial development, sub-region, regional policy.
Highlights:
♦ the spatial potential of small enterprises is defined by the authors as the total implementable and potentially achievable level of entrepreneurial abilities implementation of local community residents, formalized as the activity of small enterprises regardless of their organizational and legal form, considered in the unevenness of its distribution and taking into account the forms of territorial concentration;
♦ it is proposed to consider the spatial potential of small enterprises as a tool for managing regional development, which will allow small enterprises to become an important subsystem of the regional economy, defining a different model of development from other territories and successfully implementing economic, innovative and social potentials in its composition according to the basic prerequisites and its unique features;
♦ a methodology for implementing the spatial potential of small businesses in the region (subject of the Russian Federation) has been developed. Its application will allow for a spatially differentiated approach to management, taking into account the practicability of applying specific measures for the development of small businesses at various levels of the regional system.
Igor S. Bessonov, Applicant at the Department of Regional Economics and Management; Elena N. Koroleva, Doctor of Economics, Professor - Samara State University of Economics.