Russian SME Resource Centre

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Russian SME Resource Centre
The Russian SME Resource Centre (RCSME), a
non-commercial foundation initially established
under the Tacis program, performs research in SME
development, provides policy advisory services
and information support to the small and medium
business community.
The mission of the Russian SME Resource Centre
since 1997 has been to provide assistance to
private entrepreneurship development in the
Russian Federation.
2002
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The key objectives of the Russian SME Resource
Centre are

• To provide available information and resource
  materials on small business development through
  its Web-site (www.rcsme.ru)
• To promote and strengthen cooperation in small
  business development with interested Russian,
  international and foreign partners

• To provide information support and policy
  advisory services to business support
  institutions and entrepreneurs
• To conduct research and disseminate results in
  publications on SME issues

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Russian SME Observatory Report - 2001

• The Russian SME Observatory Report is the first
  counterpart to the European Observatory for SMEs

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Russian SME Observatory Report - 2001

• The Russian SME Observatory Report -2001
  contains lots of new information on Russias
  SMEs, including data from Goskomstat, Tax
  Ministry , OECD and World Bank data, and results
  of special surveys.
• The Russian Observatory provides data on
• small and medium businesses, legal entities
• individual entrepreneurs
• farm enterprises
• The Small and medium business sector has been
  shown for the first time as a growing sector of
  Russias economy, which makes up not less than
  90 of all enterprises.

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Russian SME Observatory Report - 2001
Small entrepreneurship entities in Russia
comprise

• Small businesses, legal entities (up to 100
  employees) 15
• Individual entrepreneurs (PBOUL) 80
• Farm enterprises 5

Federal Law ? 88-FZ of 14 June1995. On
governmental support of small entrepreneurship in
the Russian Federation
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Russian SME Observatory Report - 2001

• The data of the Russian Observatory Report 2001
  brings more convincing evidence that the Russia
  of today has become a market economy . Yet the
  efficiency of this young small entrepreneurship
  in Russia and its contribution to the countrys
  economy are still insufficient.

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The SME Resource Centre provides the following
information on SMEs in Russia through its
Web-site at www.rcsme.ru

• contact information, functions and information
  resources of business support organizations
  across Russia (Directory of Russias regional SME
  information resources, available on the RCSME
  Web-site)
• SME statistics for all the regions.
• Legislation for SMEs
• available information on SMEs (regional
  databases, Web-resources, publications, results
  of surveys)

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Announcement!!!
NEW

• Tacis project SMERUS9803 jointly with the
  Resource Centre will be producing a CD-ROM with
  the main products developed under the project

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Electronic Library on Small Entrepreneurship in
Russia
NEW

• The Resource Centre is developing a new service
  for small businesses and BSOs
• This will provide access to the largest
  collection of analytical and practical materials
  on small business in Russia.

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The Russian SME Observatory Report is based on
the following sources of information

• I. Statistics from state organizations and
  institutions
• 1. Goskomstat data, including data from the
  recent SME census.
• 2. Statistics from Tatarstan statistical Agency.
• 3 Official statistical information from the
  Ministry RF of Taxes and Levy.
• 4. Official statistical information from the RF
  Ministry of Finance.
• 6. The European Observatory for SMEs 1st, 6th
  Reports.
• II. Data from special surveys.
• 1. Surveys performed by RCSME under Tacis project
  SMERUS 9803
• 2. Data from surveys performed by NGOs

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Structure of Economic Entities in EU
All economic entities
SMEs
Large enterprises
Micro-enterprises
Small enterprises
Medium enterprises
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Structure of Economic Entities in Russia
All economic entities
Medium and large enterprises
Other economic entities
Small entrepreneurship entities
Small enterprises, legal entities
Farm enterprises
Individual entrepreneurs
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Comparison of the structure of economic entities
in EU and Russia (Russia is represented by a
typical region, 2000 EU, 1998), of all
economic entities
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Structure of Employment by Size of Enterprises in
EU and Russia, of all employment
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Contribution of enterprises with up to 250
employees in the total number of enterprises,
total employment and market share (Russia vs.EU)
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Number of small entrepreneurship entities per
1000 of population in Russia.
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Number of small entrepreneurship entities per
1000 of population, by Federal Districts
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Growth of small entrepreneurship entities,
thousand
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Comparison of individual entrepreneurs and small
businesses, legal entities, by sector,
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Comparative dynamics of births of individual
entrepreneurs and small businesses, as legal
entities (per 1000 economic entities)
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Comparative dynamics of deaths of individual
entrepreneurs and small businesses, as legal
entities (per 1000 economic entities)
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Comparative dynamics of growth rates of
individual entrepreneurs and small enterprises,
per 1000 economic entities
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Comparative dynamics of turbulence rates of
individual entrepreneurs and small enterprises,
per 1000 economic entities