The article summarizes the first results of the participation of the Russian research team in the international comparative project "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor" (GEM) in 2006–2007. The most important parameters and stages of early entrepreneurial activity and established business in...

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the ‘path dependency' of the ‘institutional matrix' of different societies. Otherwise one could...

The article analyses the characteristics of small and medium sized enterprises and state policy towards SME in modern Russia – in the context of some rather unknown for the Russian experts evidences of last decades, formulated in the works of leading world researchers concerning the role of...