Legal regulation of the economic partnership in Russia and abroad: comparative legal survey

The article deals with the problem of passive use of new organizational legal form of legal entity - economic partnership - in the course of conducting venture activity by individuals and organizations. The author reveals the reasons that determine the risky nature of venture activity and the possibility of their elimination by means of implementing this type of business activity in the organizational legal form of economic partnership. The innovative practice of establishing economic partnerships in Russia justifies used by the author comparative legal method for studying the characteristics of economic partnerships, assigned to them by the Russian legislation, with the legal characteristics of their foreign counterparts in order to identify advantages and disadvantages, as well as the proposal to adapt positive evidence of temporary foreign experience for the successful implementation of venture projects in Russia.