Entrepreneurship – Process of business organization and action in which entrepreneur (Enterprise, French Word for the first time used by Richard Canteon in the middle of ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ c.) Innovation, takes the risk, combines and mutual substitution of more expensive with cheaper resources and directs resources to the points of their rational use. Entrepreneurship, primarily, is tied to small and medium enterprises. But today, large enterprises (so-called internal, corporate entrepreneurship), institutions in the domain of health, education, culture, etc., and entrepreneurship is also the basis for local and regional development. As in other transition countries, in the early transition years, the so-called in the Republic of Macedonia. Spontaneous entrepreneurship – many registered new small and medium enterprises (SMEs), without designed government measures to support the process. After 1996, the government policy of support of SMEs and entrepreneurship was profiled. It covers three types of measures. Institutional measures – since 1997, with the financial support of the PMAR program, a National Agency for Promotion of SMEs is established (Today, it functions as an agency of the Republic of Macedonia to support entrepreneurship – APP), with the task of coordinating and supporting the process on a national level. Then, again with the support of PMA, regional ICJ Development Centers (Skopje, Kumanovo, Veles, Bitola and Strumica), and with the support of the British Knit Home Fund and regional centers (so-called. ESA centers) in Ohrid, Tetovo and Gostivar, to support entrepreneurship at local and regional level. During 1977, in Prilep, Stip, Makedonska Kamenica, Delcevo and Krushevo, the first business incubators in Macedonia (for support of SMEs in their next period – the first three years after the formation), and 2001 Three business incubators (Veles, Strumica and Ohrid). In the meantime, foreign assistance, new institutions for local regional development in several municipalities in the country are formed. Most of the mentioned institutions have gained the first experiences in supporting entrepreneurship and began financially independent. Financial measures – One of the “Makstil” stoves in Skopje, numerous credit lines for financing SMEs from foreign and domestic sources (currently in the country are active about 18 credit lines), operationalized through commercial banks in the country and through the Macedonian Bank for Development of development (only state bank in Macedonia with a special sector for support of SMEs and with a state guarantee fund for the needs of small and medium-sized businesses). Measures aimed at improving the investment climate in the country and creating a favorable entrepreneurial environment (see investment climate). Significations and publications of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Macedonia. Lit.: T. Fiti, V. Hadzi Vasileva-Markovska, M. Bateman, Entrepreneurship, Skopje, 2007, 223-265. T. F.
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