DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES AMONG PARTICIPANTS OF OJFS AND IDPS

Abstract

Introduction. With the exacerbation of the situation in the East, the destruction of infrastructure and housing, the uncertainty of return prospects, it became clear that adaptation and socio-economic integration should become a priority in IDP and OJF policy. Therefore, one of the strategic guidelines of the economic policy of the state should be to create and maintain the most favorable environment for the development of small and medium business veterans, as well as the employment of veterans and members of the families of the victims.

The hypothesis. It is envisaged that all regions of Ukraine can be classified by the level of development of small and medium-sized enterprises among the participants of the IDP and OJF.

The aim of the article is to develop a methodological approach to classification the regions of Ukraine by the level of development of small and medium-sized enterprises among participants of OJFs and IDPs and implementation of directions of support to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in depressed regions based on increasing the awareness of participants of CSOs and IDPs about grant and state support.

The research methodology: method of systematic analysis and logical generalization – for implementation of directions of support of development of 

small and medium-sized enterprises in depressed regions; substrate approach – to justify and systematize social support programs for small and medium-sized enterprises; method of cluster analysis – for classification regions of Ukraine by the level of development of small and medium entrepreneurship.

Results: developed a methodological approach to the typology of regions of Ukraine by the level of development of small and medium-sized enterprises among participants of OJFs and IDPs, which provides an opportunity to comprehensively address the urgent issue of implementation of areas of support for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in depressed regions on the basis of increasing awareness of participants in OJFs and IDPs and government support.

Conclusions: high professional and qualification potential of participants of OJFs and IDPs should become a factor of innovative development of the regions of Ukraine whose economy is in urgent need of modernization. Foreign investments are a potential source of financing the modernization of an existing production base or the construction of new high-tech enterprises.