Semchenko-Kovalchuk E. The role of SMEs in enhancing the modernization processes in regional economic systems

The thesis is a manuscript that is dedicated to theoretical and methodological approaches and applied the provisions of the efficiency of SMEs in regional economic systems and their impact on the development of the productive forces. In this paper, the essence of entrepreneurship, the evolution of the concepts of entrepreneurship and small business, determined essential features of entrepreneurship and its relationship with small businesses based on relative performance. Also, the study considered a number of specific functions performed by the SMEs and the essence of the principles of small and medium business division into general scientific and specific.