Small And Medium-Sized Business Development In Regions: Establishment Of Priority Directions By The Example Of Sverdlovsk Region

Authors

  • Dmitry Yevgenyevich Tolmachyov Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
  • Yelizaveta Andreyevna Ulyanova Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
  • Lyudmila Markovna Pliner Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17059/2015-1-11

Keywords:

small and medium-sized enterprises, business support system, development of entrepreneurship, governmental support

Abstract

The paper presents the research of current small and medium-sized business development in Sverdlovsk region. It includes analysis of enterprise development statistics, Russian and international experience, sociological survey of entrepreneurs’ satisfaction of doing business conditions in Sverdlovsk region. The aim of the research was to develop proposals for business support system development in the long run for inclusion in the SME Development Strategy in Sverdlovsk region up to 2030. As a result, a set of strategic SME development directions was formulated. It includes measures aimed at business problems solving through the development of SME support tools and at addressing institutional problems of business support. The paper includes proposals for improvement of regional support system and implementation the priority SME development direction.

Author Biographies

Dmitry Yevgenyevich Tolmachyov, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

PhD in Economics, Director, Center of Regional Economic Research of Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (19, Mira St., Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russia, e-mail: d.e.tolmachev@urfu.ru, tde1974@expertural.ru).

Yelizaveta Andreyevna Ulyanova, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Vice-director, Center of Regional Economic Research of Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (19, Mira St., Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russia, e-mail: uralsertif@inbox.ru).

Lyudmila Markovna Pliner, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Vice-director, Laboratory for International and Regional Economics of Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (19, Mira St., Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russia, e-mail: liudmila.pliner@gmail.com).

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26.03.2015

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Tolmachyov, D. Y., Ulyanova, Y. A., & Pliner, L. M. (2015). Small And Medium-Sized Business Development In Regions: Establishment Of Priority Directions By The Example Of Sverdlovsk Region. Economy of Regions, 11(1), 115–131. https://doi.org/10.17059/2015-1-11

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015)

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