DEVELOPMENT OF APPROACHES TO EVALUATION OF FORMATION PARAMETERS OF INNOVATIVE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The article considers the issues of assessing the effectiveness of the business environment in terms of providing organizational and economic conditions for the development of innovative entrepreneurship. The authors justified their opinion that the key elements of the business environment, contributing to the development of innovative business, are: infrastructure, investment, innovation and the system of State support for entrepreneurship. They also offered the methodology of evaluating the key parameters of business environment of innovative entrepreneurship. The developed method is based on the use of the index approach and involves comparison of the indices of organizational and economic support of entrepreneurship with the index of business confidence and innovation activity of business entities. By the example of the Volga Federal District the article shows the practical use of the developed methodology and appropriate calculations, confirming to some extent the authors' position. According to the authors, application of the developed methodology by the appropriate authorities will make it possible to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of individual areas to promote the development of innovative business in their territory and on this basis to carry out the adjustment of the respective administrative departments. This is going to increase the effectiveness of measures taken within the policy of innovative development of Russian regions.