Social Entrepreneurship: Regional Features Of Regulation

Abstract

Orientation towards the innovative path of economic development predetermined the spread of new practices and technologies for organizing and conducting business in Russia, one of which is social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship develops in conjunction with the development of society being a socio-economic phenomenon. On the one hand, it affects the social processes taking place in the country, and, on the other hand, it is itself subject to external and internal regulation. This article highlights the distinctive features of social entrepreneurship, the main trends that contributed to its emergence and development. The authors model of regulation of social entrepreneurship based on a synthesis of targeted and territorial approaches is given. It is proved that economic management bodies, both of federal, regional and local levels are the specific subject of regulation of social entrepreneurship, diverse in composition of participants, which generates differences in the goals and expected results. The author’s model of social entrepreneurship regulation provides for the use of a territorial approach to economic management along with the target approach, since such factors as the level of socio-economic development of the region, the state of the resource and raw materials base, the degree of development of economic sectors, the presence of financial independence of the region and others determine regional differences in the development of entrepreneurial sectors that cannot be ignored. This model should be considered as one of the main areas of implementation of the concept of development of social entrepreneurship in modern Russia and its regions.