MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS TO SUPPORT SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES
The article presents an analysis of existing practices in the development of infrastructure to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs); systematizes the organization forms of business support, their functions and current directions of the formation of infrastructure to support SMEs; offers a flowchart of interaction of organization forms to support the development of SMEs.
Keywords infrastructure, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship support, small entrepreneurship, medium entrepreneurship. Highlights:
♦ the federal and regional levels of support infrastructure for Russian small and medium-sized businesses that ensure stable functioning and the development of their activities in modern economic conditions are considered;
♦ tools of the interaction mechanism of the infrastructure elements to support small and medium-sized businesses in the Russian Federation are formulated;
♦ the role of universities in supporting Russian youth small and medium-sized businesses is shown.
Bazhutkina Lidiya Pavlovna, Doctor of Economics, Chief Researcher; Khansevyarov Rustam Idrisovich, Doctor of Economics, Professor; Suraeva Maria Olegovna, Doctor of Economics, Professor. - Samara State University of Economics.