Kyryliv M. Entrepreneurship competitiveness in the region and mechanism of its financial strengthening

Object of study: the process of strengthening the competitiveness of business and development of its financial support at the regional level of economic management. Objective: study the theoretical and methodological foundations, priorities and means of enhancing the competitiveness of businesses in the region and improving the mechanism for its financial support. Methods: systematic, statistical analysis and expert estimations, regression analysis, structural and logical analysis, strategic management, comparative analysis. Novelty: first settled the dominant characteristics of the competitiveness of businesses in the region, improved competitiveness of the business functions of a typology of the region and its financial support, the methodological approaches to integrated assessment of the level of financial support for the competitiveness of businesses in the region by the formation of aggregate indicators of financial independence and access to businesses to finance. Scope: the development of the Regional Small Business Development in the Lviv region in 2009-2010, in the learning process of the Lviv Institute of Management.