VERA BARINOVA AND STEPAN ZEMTSOV CO-AUTHORED THE BOOK «RESEARCH AGENDA FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY»

Vera Barinova, Head of Innovation Economics Department of the Gaidar Institute, and Stepan Zemtsov, Senior Researcher of this Department, co-authored the book “Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Policy” dedicated to entrepreneurial policy in different countries of the world edited by F. Welter, D. Smallbone, Edward Elgar Publishing (Cheltenham, UK).
Employees of the Gaidar Institute together with Prof. D.Smallbone, described main characteristics of the small and medium-sized business system of support in Russia and outlined key tendencies in the chapter dedicated to Russia.

The book can be useful for entrepreneurship researchers and decision makers. It justifies the need to change the research program on entrepreneurial policy. A key subject is the importance of the institutional context (environment) that is significant for attempting to transfer policy instruments from developed to developing countries. The book also describes national cases