SUPPORTING THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTREPRENEURS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuliia Horiashchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Categorical Analysis ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Medium And Small Enterprises

This article draws a parallel between the diffusion of innovation and the level of profitability of Ukrainian enterprises. The conceptual and categorical analysis of the term “diffusion of innovations” is carried out. The basic principles of innovative solutions are indicated as the basis for information support of innovative activities. These principles include: the natural nature of innovation, analytical solutions, validity, voluntariness, partnership between all participants in the innovation process. It is emphasized that non-observance of these principles makes it impossible to make a voluntary or collective decision and presupposes the adoption of an undesirable innovative decision for enterprises, which, unlike a collective one, is made not by the social system, but by a group of people with influence or power. Shown are regional disparities in terms of profitability (loss ratio) of large, medium and small enterprises in 2015-2019. The difference between the level of profitability of large, medium and small enterprises by region is due to regional imbalances in social, economic, environmental and political and legal development. Separately, a comparison was made of all economic regions for a deeper understanding of the country's innovative potential and cluster analysis in further scientific research. It is emphasized that it is the profitable activity of enterprises that is the first step towards innovation. The calculations showed the level of readiness and ability of citizens to do business in the country. A fuzzy relationship has been established between the profitability of Ukrainian enterprises and their innovative activities. The main problem for small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine, as well as for businesses in European countries, is the inaccessibility of digital production and distribution solutions. The German experience of diffusion of innovations in small and medium-sized businesses was studied, in particular, the attraction of German small businesses to digitalization. Based on the study of foreign experience, a strategic task for Ukrainian small and medium-sized businesses is outlined.

High-tech business in crisis conditions: development trends of large, medium and small enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Vladislav V. Spitsyn ◽  
Alexander A. Mikhal'chuk ◽  
Anastasia A. Bulykina ◽  
Svetlana N. Popova ◽  
Irina E. Nikulina
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
Medium And Small Enterprises

Leading world countries view innovative development and high-tech business as an opportunity to overcome economic stagnation and decline in economic growth. One of the modern trends in the analysis of high-tech development is the study of high-tech knowledge-intensive service industries and their development in times of crisis. The purpose of the paper is to identify patterns of development of large, medium and small enterprises in high-tech service industries in Russia during periods of crisis. Economic and economic-mathematical methods of analysis are applied to the formed samples of enterprises. The research period is 2013-2017. The financial indicators of enterprises were adjusted for the level of accumulated inflation in relation to 2013. According to results, large and medium-sized enterprises showed insignificant or weak significant positive dynamics of revenue during all years of the crisis period. The crisis period did not lead to a decrease in the revenue of these groups of enterprises. The acute phase of the crisis (2014-2015) had a pronounced negative impact on the group of small enterprises in all studied industries, but they successfully recovered in 2016-2017 and reached the pre-crisis level of revenue. The total revenue by industries and groups of enterprises in 2017 became higher than in 2013, and its growth rates were significant for many groups of enterprises, which indicates a successful overcoming of the crisis period and signs of growth in high-tech service industries. Our study shows the need for state support for small businesses in high-tech service industries in crisis conditions, and identifies the possibilities of adaptation of enterprises in these industries to an unfavorable external environment. Our results may be useful for the purposes of government stimulation of economic development in the current environment.

Improving the Strategic Sustainability Management of large, Medium, and Small Businesses in the Depressed Regions of Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Kuznetsov ◽  
E. M. Anokhina ◽  
E. V. Melyakova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Profit Centers ◽  
Regional Authorities ◽  
Depressed Regions ◽  
Medium And Small Enterprises ◽  
Regions Of Russia ◽  
Large Enterprises

This study1 presents a methodology for assessing the strategic sustainability of enterprises in Russian regions at the micro level as a part of assessing the strategic sustainability of the complex of enterprises in a region. The authors suggest directions for fostering the economy of the depressed regions ofRussiaby improving the management of strategic sustainability of the complex of large, medium, and small enterprises in a region. The recommendations developed for federal and regional authorities on how to improve the management of the complex of enterprises in the regions are based on the hypothesis proved in the study about the dependence of economic development indicators of a region on the strategic sustainability of the complex of enterprises operating in its territory.Aim. The study aims to suggest directions for improving the management of the strategic sustainability of large, medium, and small enterprises in the depressed regions of Russia based on the formation of regional profit centers.Tasks. The authors identify the peculiarities in the development of large enterprises in the depressed regions of Russia by calculating an integrated index of economic and financial sustainability of enterprises; conduct a comparative analysis of the activities of large enterprises in depressed and developed regions to prove the hypothesis about the dependence of the economic and financial sustainability of large enterprises on the region’s level of socio-economic development; develop recommendations for federal and regional authorities on how to improve the management of the complex of large, medium, and small enterprises, including a proposal on the formation of regional profit centers.Methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of this study includes theories and concepts on the role of enterprises and entrepreneurship in the economic development of a region. The study uses general scientific methods: analysis and synthesis, comparative and statistical analysis, systematization, calculation of an integrated index, financial ratio analysis.Results. The economic and financial indicators of large businesses in depressed regions are comparable to those of large businesses in developed regions (including the development indicators of the largest enterprises included in the Expert 600 rating), with some indicators showing values that are even higher than in developed regions. This confirms the hypothesis that the level of socio-economic development of a region does not have a dominant effect on the sustainability of development of large enterprises. The level of development of regional economies depends on the regional business structure. The revealed patterns make it possible to propose directions for improving the management of strategic sustainability of enterprises in depressed regions to federal and regional authorities.Conclusions. The improvement of development management in depressed regions should be aimed at developing government support tools that facilitate the development of the complex of enterprises in the regions. It is necessary to integrate the sustainability management of the complex of enterprises in a region into the strategic management system at the federal and regional levels. Along with the implementation of national projects aimed at developing small businesses, increasing labor productivity, supporting innovation and development institutions, in depressed regions it is also necessary to implement projects aimed at developing large businesses and integrating them with medium and small enterprises based on cooperation roadmaps. A new approach to the development of depressed regions based on the formation of regional profit centers would facilitate the formation of the sustainability of the complex of enterprises in depressed regions, allowing rational use of national project funds. This study is a continuation of the article “Approaches to assessing the strategic sustainability of large, medium, and small businesses in the depressed regions of Russia” published in Ekonomika i upravlenie No. 10, 2019.

Assessing Factors of Small Business Development in Subjects of the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 574
Author(s):  
Elena SHAMALOVA ◽  
Elena KOSTROMIN ◽  
Anton Evgenievich POLYAKOV ◽  
Veronika Sergeevna NOVIKOVA ◽  
Alexander MUKHOV
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Small Business Development ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Statistical Indicators

This study is dedicated to assessing the factors of entrepreneurship that contribute or impede the development of small business in the regions. The study aims at displaying the factors of entrepreneurship in Russia through statistical indicators and determining their impact on the development of small enterprises in the regions with different conditions and development. At the first stage of the study, two groups of regions with the most favorable and unfavorable conditions for the development of small business were identified by using the multivariate comparative analysis. At the second stage, the entrepreneurship factors in the form of statistical indicators were divided into four groups: political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological-innovative. Using the correlation analysis, the factors that had the strongest impact on the development of small business in the regions were determined. These factors were compared to the results of monitoring the entrepreneurship in world countries and Russia. The difference between the results of the statistical analysis and the results of the entrepreneurs’ surveys has been revealed. During the study it has been determined that depending on a region and its development, one and the same factor of entrepreneurship can influence small businesses in different ways. It has also been substantiated that it is impossible to correctly compile a general list of entrepreneurship factors for the Russian regions. It is necessary to monitor the opinions of entrepreneurs and carry out the statistical analysis of factors for each group of regions that are similar in their development. The conclusions of the study can be used as theoretical basis for studying the problems of developing small business in the regions.

scholarly journals Sustainable Innovations in Small Enterprises for the Transformation of the Primary Healthcare Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6391
Author(s):  
Maria Emilsson ◽  
Ulf Ernstson ◽  
Linn Gustavsson ◽  
Ann Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Small enterprises face multiple and complex challenges when developing digital technologies. The aim of this article is to explore the role of sustainable innovation in small enterprises in relation to the ongoing transformation of the primary healthcare sector. The purpose is to gain understanding of innovation processes within the framework of sustainable development, applied to a local primary healthcare center. Data were collected through seven semi-structured interviews. A qualitative thematic analysis was conducted. Five themes appeared in relation to the ongoing transformation of the primary healthcare sector: (1) The process of sustainable innovation in a long-term perspective; (2) the companies’ views on innovations in healthcare; (3) effects of innovations in healthcare; (4) sustainable product or service development, and (5) the role of collaboration in the innovation process. The companies expressed a positive attitude to new innovations, as a natural part of developing the companies. The article concludes that incremental development of tools in small businesses supports the transformation of processes and services in the primary healthcare sector. Cross-disciplinary teams in collaboration facilitates the necessary learning and the required creation and sharing of knowledge.

scholarly journals PERAN KELOMPOK INFORMASI MASYARAKAT (KIM) DALAM PEMBERDAYAAN POTENSI LOKAL DI KAMPUNG JAMBU DESA KARANGSONO KECAMATAN KANIGORO KABUPATEN BLITAR

MEDIAKITA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faidatu Rohmah, Mutrofin
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Information ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Agricultural Business ◽  
Innovation Diffusion Process

This study aims to describe the role of Community Information Groups (KIM) in forming agricultural business networks in order to improve the community's economy through empowering local potentials in Karangsono Village, Kanigoro District, Blitar Regency. The approach used is to use the theory of diffusion of innovation which has 4 elements of the innovation diffusion process, namely innovation, communication channels, time and social system. However, researchers are more focused on the process of diffusion of innovations in forming a network using communication channels. This study will explain the innovations of KIM members which will be disseminated to the public using qualitative descriptive methods. This research data collection through interviews and field observations. The results of this study are the diffusion of innovation in forming business networks through communication channels that have been created by KIM members. So that the innovation process that has been disseminated can be accepted by the community and can change the community to be more prosperous.

scholarly journals Does Privatization In Transitional Countries Influence Enterprise Efficiency Growth: A Case Of Croatia And Slovenia

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neda Vitezi?
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Transitional Countries ◽  
Business Efficiency ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Countries In Transition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Medium And Small Enterprises

This paper explores the impact of privatization on the efficiency growth of enterprises in two transitional countries, which did not follow the same privatization model. The aim of this research is to analyze the effects of privatization on micro and macroeconomic indicators. Research will be based on ten-year time-series analysis, using both financial and other indicators. Particular emphasis will be placed on efficiency and profitability growth by analyzing separately large, medium, and small enterprises. The expressed hypotheses, which will be tested through statistical data analysis, are related to the statement that the privatization model utilized did not contribute to the efficiency of the entire economy. However, it did contribute to the efficiency of particular segments of enterprises. The second hypothesis is that the recent growth of small business efficiency will decrease while medium and large enterprise efficiency will increase. Finally, the third hypothesis is related to the impact of enterprise performance in ten years period on macroeconomic indicators. The development of small business in both countries in the early years of transition will be examined. During this time of period, small businesses tended to experience more efficiency growth than other enterprises. However, there currently appears to be a shift in efficiency and profitability growth to medium and large enterprises. Therefore, another aim of this research is to determine what factors may have caused these differences and lead to the opinion about future efficiency growth in countries in transition.

scholarly journals Evolutionary essence of innovations

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Eremin
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Evolutionary Effect ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

The presented research belongs to the sphere of evolutionary economics. It indicates that it is innovation that is the trigger for the evolution of both the economy as a whole and its individual industries and regions. The maximum evolutionary effect of innovation is the transition of the economy to a new technological order. Equally important is the role of innovation in the social development of society. They change not only the means of transport, communication, education and medicine, but also the way of life habitual for society. The difference between the terms «innovation» and «innovation» is defined. The classification of innovations is considered, proceeding from their evolutionary component. Innovations with qualitative and quantitative evolutionary effect, innovations with the effect of social and spatial evolution are singled out. An analysis of the evolutionary essence of innovations, determined in the works of well-known authors, is carried out. Such as J. Schumpeter, N.D. Kondratiev, R. Nelson, S. Winter, and others. Influence of diffusion of innovations on the process of territorial evolution is determined. The types of diffusion of innovations with characteristics of each of them are described. It is indicated that in the process of changing business-routines there is a dual essence of innovations. It consists in that, on the one hand, innovations are external factors of evolution, and on the other hand – by its internal factors. The role of multiplicative effects as a mechanism that changes the trajectory of the development of the innovation process, making it less predictable and, accordingly, difficult to manage, is defined.

Small Industry, Gimmicks and Moscow Statistics, or How the Small Russian Enterprise Came into the World (Russian Physiological Sketch, 1830-1840)

2009 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Yu. Golubitsky
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Russian Enterprise ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Xix Century

The article considers business practices of Moscow small industry in the XIX century, basing upon physiological sketches of N. Polevoy and I. Kokorev, statistical data and the classification of professions are also presented. The author claims that the heroes of the analyzed sketches are the forefathers of Moscow small businesses and shows what a deep similarity their occupations and a way of life bear to the present-day routine existence of small enterprises.

Assessment of small businesses activities in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Igor Ponomarenko ◽  
Kateryna Volovnenko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Micro Enterprises

The subject of the research is a set of approaches to the statistical analysis ofthe activities of small business entities in Ukraine, including micro-enterprises. The purpose of writing this article is to study of the features of functioningof small business entities in Ukraine. Methodology. The research methodology isto use a system-structural and comparative analysis (to study the change in thenumber of small enterprises by major components); monographic (when studyingmethods of statistical analysis of small businesses); economic analysis (when assessing the impact of small business entities on socio-economic phenomena andprocesses in Ukraine). The scientific novelty consists to determine the features ofthe functioning of small businesses in Ukraine in modern conditions. The influenceof the activities of the main socio-economic and political indicators on the activities of small enterprises in recent periods of time has been identified. It has beenestablished that there is flexibility in the development of strategies by small businesses in conditions of significant competition, which makes it possible to quicklyrespond to changing situations in specific markets. Conclusions. The use of acomprehensive statistical analysis of small businesses functioning in Ukraine willallow government agencies to develop a set of measures to optimize the activitiesof these enterprises, which ultimately will positively affect the strengthening oftheir competitiveness and will contribute to the growth of the national economicsystem.

Information support for expert evaluation of the states of the external environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Rasol Murtadha Najah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Fuzzy Variables ◽  
Decision Making Models ◽  
The Difference ◽  
State Of The Environment

This article discusses the application of methods to enhance the knowledge of experts to build a decision-making model based on the processing of physical data on the real state of the environment. Environmental parameters determine its ecological state. To carry out research in the field of expert assessment of environmental conditions, the analysis of known works in this field is carried out. The results of the analysis made it possible to justify the relevance of the application of analytical, stochastic models and models based on methods of enhancing the knowledge of experts — experts. It is concluded that the results of using analytical and stochastic objects are inaccurate, due to the complexity and poor mathematical description of the objects. The relevance of developing information support for an expert assessment of environmental conditions is substantiated. The difference of this article is that based on the analysis of the application of expert methods for assessing the state of the environment, a fuzzy logic adoption model and information support for assessing the environmental state of the environment are proposed. The formalization of the parameters of decision-making models using linguistic and fuzzy variables is considered. The formalization of parameters of decision-making models using linguistic and fuzzy variables was considered. The model’s description of fuzzy inference is given. The use of information support for environment state assessment is shown on the example of experts assessing of the land desertification stage.

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