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them laid off  workers, almost everywhere reduced wages. Such changes in the law don’t promote the development of small businesses, they just destroy its beginnings and positive trends.

Key economic indicators of small enterprises for the year 2001-2013[1]

 economic indicators

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Number of small enterprises (end of year), thousands

843

882,3

893

953,1

979,3

1032,8

1137,4

1347,667

1602,491

1644,269

1836,433

2003

2063,1

Average number of employees,(without external part), thousand pers.

6483,5

7220,3

7458,9

7815,1

8045,2

8582,8

9239,2

10436,9

10247,5

9790,2

10422

10756

10775,2

Average number of employees(without external part),%

12,8

14,3

15

15,9

16,7

17,8

18,9

21,1

21,7

21

22,7

23,4

23,5

Investments in fixed capital, bn. Rub.

43,5

51

67,3

99,2

120,5

171,3

259,1

472,3

346,1

520,3

431,6

521,5

574,9

Investments in fixed capital(%)

2,9

2,8

3,1

3,5

3,3

3,7

3,9

5,4

4,4

7,2

3,9

4,1

4,3

 

Table 2 Key economic indicators of small enterprises for the year 2001-2013

 

 

Despite the fact that the number of small businesses over the entire period in 2013 increased compared with previous years, this increase can not be described fully from the positive side.

According to the study "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor" many citizens, who have or want to organize their business do so because of the inability to find another source of income that characterizes the development of the economy from the negative side.

In addition, there are several other factors that do not allow to characterize the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia from the positive side:

  1. In the Russian sector of the real economy is developing unorganized , and in fact some of them have to be a priority for the country. The share of SME organizations producing innovative products and introduce new technology is also very small. For example, for the period from 1999 to 2003. the share of small businesses in the field of science and its maintenance of the total number of small enterprises has decreased from 4.2% to 2.5%, and their number has decreased from 37.1 thousand. to 22.1 thousand

[1] Source: www.gks.ru

1.Small business in Russia. 2007: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2007

2.Small business in Russia. 2008: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2008

3.Small business in Russia. 2009: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2009

4.Small business in Russia. 2010: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2010

5.Small business in Russia. 2011: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2011

6.Small business in Russia. 2012: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2012

5.Small business in Russia. 2013: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2013

6.Small business in Russia. 2014: Stat.sb. / Rosstat. - M., 2014