Forms of support for small and medium enterprises in digital transformation
The article reveals various forms of legal, financial and non-financial support for SMEs to digitalize the business environment within the framework of "regulatory sandboxes" taking into account the demand determinants of the readiness of small and medium-sized Russian enterprises to digitally transform their businesses based on the Business Digitalization Index (BDI) and its structural components are transmission and storage channels, the use of the Internet in sales, information security, digital technology integration (CRM, electronic document management), digitally staff training, as well as the barriers and advantages of the digitalization processes of SMEs are determined, it is concluded that these processes are uneven and ambiguous in the regional aspect and for different business models of small and medium-sized businesses, which allows a more comprehensive look at the readiness of small and medium-sized Russian enterprises to digital transformations.