Entrepreneurship at the Stage of Development of the Digital Economy

Abstract

Nowadays, during the period of globalization and the formation of the digital economy in a dynamically developing world, the tasks of entrepreneurship are becoming increasingly complicated and more urgent. To solve them, we turn to the Russian history of entrepreneurship as a mechanism for flexible adaptation to a changing economic environment. The transformation of the organizational structure of entrepreneurial activity in connection with a change in the structure of property rights, forms of management and control, reinforces the need to organize a new type of entrepreneurship set up to introduce innovations and increase its competitiveness in the markets of the country and the world. The paper studies issues of entrepreneurial activity in the field of small and medium-sized businesses in order to identify contradictions in this activity and describe solutions to smooth them. Also, proposals have been formulated to implement decisions aimed at raising the Russian economy and improving the quality of the socio-economic life of the Russian population. The study was conducted based on a large amount of materials from the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation [Rosstat], authors’ research, and modern research by other authors. Using the system approach, general scientific comparative, and logical analysis, we study the leading economic indicators of the activity of small and medium enterprises. The result of the work is an economic assessment of the dynamics of the activity of small and medium enterprises; the reasons for its slow development are described.