Technology entrepreneurship in Russia: evaluation problems

From the socio-economic perspective entrepreneurship is the basis for the development of countries’ economies, assuming bigger investment volume in skills, innovation and technologies rather than the state can accumulate. However, the generally accepted characteristics of entrepreneurship do not fully allow to describe it and give the evaluation of its technological type. In economic science the significance of researching technological entrepreneurship and its contribution to the territory’s economic development is increasing. Therewith, the issues related to evaluating its importance in the Russian economy, which require speedy and objective decisions, remain debatable. This indicates the relevance of the conducted work on finding options for evaluating the results of technological entrepreneurship activities, and its contribution to the Russian economy. The purpose of the article lies in identifying the options and justifying the approach to conducting the evaluation of technological entrepreneurship in Russia to understand the situation and to elaborate the effective areas of collaboration contributing to its development. In order to achieve the stated goal, the following tasks have been solved: the approaches to evaluating technological entrepreneurship in the world and the works of researchers related to this issue have been studied, the approaches used and implemented in practice abroad and in Russia have been marked; the decision options to the problem of evaluating technology entrepreneurship, taking into account the advantages (strong points) of the existing approaches, have been elaborated and proposed. The results of the presented research contribute to developing the theory and practice of entrepreneurship in terms of options for evaluating its technological type, as well as they have practical importance for solving the tasks of the national project “Small and medium entrepreneurship and support of individual entrepreneurial initiative”.