Assessment of Functioning of Regional Infrastructure of Business Support: Quantitative Aspect

The authors pay attention to substantial aspects of the concept “regional infrastructure of business support”, including the focus on territorial and functional aspects. The article aims to evaluate the effectiveness of regional infrastructure of entrepreneurial activity support. The authors suggest that effectiveness of entrepreneurial activity depends on qualitative parameters of infrastructure provision. The analysis of distribution of the indicators characterizing the level of business development in Russian regions which was carried out in the early research showed high extent of their differentiation that predetermined the need of using the typology of territories. To check the hypothesis of dependence of effectiveness of entrepreneurial activity in the regions on qualitative parameters of infrastructure provision on the basis of carrying out typology of territories nonparametric methods of an assessment of interrelation are also used. The authors assess the influence of quantity of infrastructure facilities on activity of enterprise structures. As a result of calculations, the authors confirm the hypothesis and make conclusion that the high-quality rendering of services has a key influence on the development of business sector in Russian regions. In these conditions even in the presence of sufficient number of objects of entrepreneurial activity support in the regions, the level of business development is still low that testifies to the need of high-quality transformations for system of infrastructure providing an entrepreneurial activity.