Technological Entrepreneurship as a Tool for the Transition to an Innovative Type of Economic Development

   The subject of the research is technological entrepreneurship as a basis for ensuring a better potential for the development of domestic and foreign economies, which makes it possible to serve as an additional source of investment in knowledge and innovative technologies in comparison with state financing of traditional projects and programs.

   The relevance of the study lies in the fact that technological entrepreneurship has not been classified by type to date and has been sufficiently evaluated.

   The purpose of the work is to identify modern tools of technological entrepreneurship and substantiate approaches to the multifactorial assessment of its role for the development of the Russian economy.

   For this purpose, the essence of technological entrepreneurship in the conditions of the transition of the Russian economy to an innovative path of development is analyzed, the tools used abroad and in Russian practice are considered; methods for evaluating technological entrepreneurship are developed and proposed, taking into account the positive experience of its application. The article describes startups as initial forms of technological entrepreneurship. The level of competitiveness and innovation activity of technological entrepreneurship is determined on the basis of the global competitiveness index and the global innovation index. The definition of technological entrepreneurship is given. It is concluded that this study can be used as a basis for the development of the theory and practice of technological entrepreneurship and its evaluation options.

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