REGIONAL COOPERATION FORUM SMALL BUSINESS IN RUSSIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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REGIONAL COOPERATION FORUMSMALL BUSINESS IN
RUSSIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Sergey Borisov,
• President of All-Russian public organization of
  small and medium business OPORA RUSSIA
• Geneva, July 9-10, 2006

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OPORA RUSSIA
OPORA All-Russian Union of business
organizations (Founded in September, 2001)
OPORA RUSSIA All-Russian public organization of
small and medium business (founded in September,
2002)
Committees and commissions
Entrepreneurial branch associations, unions (96)
Regional coordinators (7 RF federal districts)
Entrepreneurial regional Unions and Associations
Regional departments in 78 RF regions
More than 320 000
Entrepreneurs
About 3,5 million job places
Entrepreneurs
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Small entrepreneurship in Russia today and plans
for the future

• 979,3 thousands of small enterprises
• Aim annual increase minimum
• 5-10
• 13-15 in production of Gross Internal Product
• Aim more than 50
• 24,7 of economically active population is
  involved in small and medium business
• Aim more than 50

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Branch structure of small entrepreneurship
Small Enterprises (SE)
SE Private Entrepreneurs
50
50
13
13
21
2,5
17
Number of small enterprises (legal persons) on
branches of economy according to the Federal
service of the State statistics
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Rating of the regions
Successful regions
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Actual risks
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Index of OPORA(the index of enterprise
climate)
Tula area
Yamalo-Nenetskyi AR
Krasnoyarsk region
Moscow
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Programme of support of small entrepreneurship

• Directions of support
• Creation of business incubators
• Development of micro-financing
• Support of exports
• Creation of venture funds
• State guaranty for SME credit.
• Volume of funding

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Decisions of the Government of May 24, 2006

• New law for small business
• Increasing possibilities of using of the
  simplified taxation system
• Reducing of administrative barriers for small
  enterprises
• Simplification of access of small enterprises to
  property leased from the government
• Developing simplified procedure of connecting
  small enterprises to electricity networks and
  reduction of prices for connecting to networks of
  natural monopolies
• Developing of credit system for SME

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Examples of potential clusters in Russia
Leningrad region Transportation logistics
Tver region Recreation tourism
Arkhangelsk region Timber industry
Astrakhan region Recreation tourism

• Moscow and Moscow region
• Biotechnologies
• Information and communication technologies

• Perm Region
• Machinery
• Chemical industry,
• Timber industry

Krasnodar territory Recreation tourism
Irkutsk region and Republic of Buryatia Recreation
tourism
Samara region/ Tolyatti Automobile industry

• Republic of Tatarstan
• /Naberezhnye Chelny
• Automobile industry
• /Nizhnekamsk
• Petrochemicals