Bìznes Inform (Sep 2019)
Entrepreneurship Development in Region: Sectoral Dimension
Abstract
The article explores the tendencies of entrepreneurship development in region (on the example of the Zaporizhzhya region). Based on the statistics of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine and the General Directorate of Statistics in the Zaporizhzhya region, the article analyzes the main indicators of the activities of the economic entities in this region; the main indicators of the financial-economic activities of the enterprises in the Zaporizhzhya region (by types of economic activity); financial results before taxation per enterprise in the Zaporizhzhya region; financial results before taxation of enterprises in the individual regions of Ukraine; the main structural indicators of the small enterprises’ activities in the individual regions of Ukraine. Some data on entrepreneurship development in several regions of Ukraine are compared with the corresponding indicators of the Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus. The carried out research allowed to state the following: change in the structure of the region’s economic entities during the research period towards an increase in the share of enterprises and, consequently, a decrease in the share of individuals - entrepreneurs; the lower rate of decline in employment in the Zaporizhzhya region than in Ukraine as a whole; a high proportion of innovatively active industrial enterprises in the total number of industrial enterprises in the Zaporizhzhya region compared to the neighboring regions (except Kharkiv region) and the country as a whole; positive tendency in the volume of sold innovative products by the region’s industrial enterprises; increased importance of the small business’ influence on the economic development of the Zaporizhzhya region, as evidenced by the high average annual growth rate of the number of small enterprises in the region compared to a number of neighboring regions, as well as the growth of volume of the products (goods and services) sold by small businesses. It is determined that the importance of business development for the Zaporizhzhya region is conditioned by the need to move from the model of economic development based on the activities of large enterprises - processors of raw materials to more diversified and open economic model based on small and medium-sized entrepreneurship with high innovation potential, resilience to crisis phenomena and the ability to adapt quickly to new economic conditions and environmental challenges. Therefore, the first-priority measures are: modernization of the outdated equipment and technologies; introduction of energy-saving technologies, alternative energy; spatial deconcentration of economic entities.
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