All-Russian Non-governmental Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Business OPORA RUSSIA

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All-Russian Non-governmental Organization of
Small and Medium-Sized BusinessOPORA RUSSIA

• Borisov Sergey
• President
• July 2-3, 2007
• Liechtenstein

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SMALL ENTREPRENEURSHIPtoday

• 1 million 33 thous. small enterprises
• 2 million 900 thous. - entrepreneurs
• Number of employees in SE
• 16,7 million people or
• 25 of total number of employees
• 15 in structure of GDP

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Branch structure of small entrepreneurship
Small Enterprises (SE)
SE Entrepreneurs
50
13
13
3
2
2 17
Number of small enterprises (legal persons) on
branches of economy according to the Federal
service of the State statistics
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PROBLEMS of Small Enterprises Development

• business real estate - about 70 of
  entrepreneurs are unable to purchase due to high
  prices or due to artificial restriction of access
  to auctions
• financial condition - more than 50 of
  entrepreneurs estimate their position as
  relatively stable, enough to maintain business,
  but not enough to develop it further
• influence of administrative resource on
  competition. Public servants are active players
  of market relations
• costs to overcome administrative barriers run
• from 2005 8,5 of turnover
• to 2006 - 9,6 of turnover.

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Federal Program to Support Small Enterprises

• The Federal government spend to support small
  enterprises (euro)
• In 2005 44 100 000
• In 2006 - 88 200 000
• In 2007(already) 111 765 000
• Funds are submitted to regions
• 50 - from the federal government
• 50 - from regional administrations

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Researches OF OPORA RUSSIA

• Directions
• Business climate
• Innovations
• Industry and Technology

Estimation of business climate
Estimation of business activity
Estimation of State policy

• Quality of laws
• Administrative barriers
• Actions of administration
• .

• Federal program
• Regional program

regularly

• Municipal reform
• Administrative reform

• separate actions

selectively
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OPORA RUSSIA today
OPORA Association of entrepreneurial
organizations of Russia (created in September
2001)
OPORA RUSSIA All-Russian Public Organization of
Small and Medium-Sized Entrepreneurship (created
in September 2002)
Commissions Committees
Above 330 000
Approx. 4,5 million jobs
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REGIONAL DIMENSION
OPORA RUSSIA has its divisions in 79 of 88
regions of the country
Regions where OPORA RUSSIA divisions are set up
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OPORAs priority activities

• Improvement of business conditions
• administrative reform,
• tax reform,
• anti-monopoly regulation,
• fight against corruption, etc
• Diversification of small business
• reduction of share of retail trade,
• increase of share of production, services,
  innovations
• Development of SMEs support infrastructure
• industrial parks,
• technoparks,
• clusters,
• business incubators
• Development of international cooperation.

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International cooperation
Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of
the Russian Federation
International nongovernmental organizations and
programs
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the
Russian Federation
OPORA EUROPE
OPORA ASIA
Zurich
Shanghai

PARTNERS (international business-associations)
US-RUSSIA CENTER for entrepreneurship USA
CECC China
OSEC Switzerland
SBF Singapore
FFE Finland
CGPME France
KFSB Korea
FICCI India
SARIO Slovakia
UNICE EU
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OPORA EUROPE Official representative of OPORA
RUSSIA

• The main aim
• to develop and strengthen business
  relationships between Russian and European small
  and medium-sized companies.
• Services provided by OPORA EUROPE (Zurich)
• Information
• Consultancy
• Business partner search
• www.oporaeurope.com