ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND PROGRAM SUPPORT OF YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Abstract

This article discusses the study of youth entrepreneurship development conducted. The relevance of the study is determined by a major gap between the need for large-scale involvement of young people in entrepreneurial activity in order to ensure development of the country’s economy and quite passive attitude of young people in Russia towards setting up their own businesses despite various enabling programs and mechanisms for youth entrepreneurship offered at different levels of power in Russia. In order to identify the reasons behind these discrepancies, the article writers review the programs and organizational forms to support youth entrepreneurship development at different levels that are currently available in Russia: from federal to local and intra-university. The analysis of youth entrepreneurship support provided is based on a study of the international practice addressing these issues. This article discusses the key issues that hamper youth entrepreneurship development. The article has a special focus on a social study of the effectiveness of various supportive measures as viewed by young people – university students. It also gives a detailed account of individual aspects of youth entrepreneurship organization in the context of a regional university – Minin University. The authors have examined some of the measures to be taken by universities to empower and involve students as country’s most active youth representatives in entrepreneurial activity. Conclusions have been drawn as to certain aspects of the effectiveness of youth entrepreneurship organizational and program supportive measures in this country.