Role and Meaning of the ICT Infrastructure for Development of Entrepreneurial Activities in the Russian Agricultural Machinery Market

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to determine the role and meaning of the ICT infrastructure for development of entrepreneurial activities in the Russian agricultural machinery market. For that, the author uses the method of structural & functional and logical analysis, as well as the method of regression analysis, with the help of which the connection between the level of development of ICT infrastructure (index of ICT development according to the International Telecommunication Union) and the share of economic systems in the global agricultural machinery market is studied, for it reflects the level of development of entrepreneurial activities in the agricultural machinery markets, and indicators of entrepreneurial activities in the agricultural machinery market in Russia in 2010–2017. It is concluded that at the global level dependence of business activity from ICT infrastructure is easy to track, which reflects large potential of application of new ICT for stimulating development of entrepreneurial activities in the agricultural machinery market. In modern Russia, ICT infrastructure has a secondary role and has no meaning in the aspect of development of entrepreneurial activities in the agricultural machinery market, the reason of which is low level of development of ICT infrastructure in Russia and its improper use. The authors offer the model of development of entrepreneurial activities in the Russian agricultural machinery market in the basis of ICT infrastructure.