Survey: every third Russian is planning to start a business

About 8% of Russians plan to start entrepreneurship within three years, 14% – in the next five. 23% of citizens plan to start their own business within 10 years. This is evidenced by the data of a survey conducted by the NAFI Analytical Center "Attitude of Russians to Entrepreneurship" for the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.

One in three Russians (35%) wants to become an entrepreneur without reference to time. It is noteworthy that the number of applicants has increased – in January, 29% of citizens stated this.

Maxim Oreshkin, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, called such indicators high. He noted that the agency's task is to "turn simple desires into decisive actions." To do this, the Ministry of Economic Development is actively working with potential entrepreneurs, talking about government support and teaching business.

According to the survey, young people aged 18 to 30 expressed the greatest enthusiasm for entrepreneurship: more than half of the respondents (57%) from this age group want to run a business. The idea of starting a business is also popular among schoolchildren (49%), graduates of orphanages (42%) and women on maternity leave (40%). At the same time, if schoolchildren and young people are attracted to entrepreneurship primarily by personal income, which ensures a decent life, then young mothers strive mainly for independence: in their opinion, working for themselves allows them to devote time to their family.

Nevertheless, experts and representatives of business associations warn that the interest of these groups is rather theoretical. Government support measures provided to entrepreneurs within the framework of the national project "SMEs and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative" can encourage Russians to take action. By the way, in the Omsk region, within the framework of the national project for small and medium-sized businesses, a six-year plan has been formed, which defines the main activities for four regional projects. These are "Improving business conditions", "Financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises", "Acceleration of small and medium-sized enterprises" and "Popularization of entrepreneurship". The main objective of the national project on small and medium–sized enterprises is to increase the number of people employed in the small and medium-sized business sector.

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