Support through Entrepreneurship: International Experience and Opportunities for its Application in Russia

Vera A. Barinova – Head of International Laboratory for Research on Sustainable Development Problems Regionalism of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Head of Laboratory of Innovative Economics of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ksenia V. Demidova – Junior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The article highlights the directions of the foreign policy of employment support in crisis periods and outside of crises, compares the instruments of SME support in different countries. During the current crisis, popular measures of state support for business have become supporting the liquidity of companies and facilitating the maximum transfer of their activities to the digital mode. Russia needs to expand the areas of concessional lending or co-financing, step up assistance to SMEs to digitalize their activities.

The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.

Key words: employment support, small and medium entrepreneurship, anti-crisis policy.

JEL-codes: E24, O5.