Drivers and Barriers to the Development of Entrepreneurship in Russia

This article is the result of a comprehensive study of the development of entrepreneurship in Russia. The authors rely on the analysis of statistical data, their own many years of experience in the system of higher professional and additional education, experience in practical activities in the field of entrepreneurship. The result of the study was a generalization of drivers and the level of their impact on the development of SMEs in Russia, as well as the identification of systemic basic problems that do not allow us to achieve the global average level of entrepreneurship development in our country in key indicators: such as employment, contribution to GDP and activity. The authors consider in detail the influence of the education system on the formation of a community of active and successful entrepreneurs in Russia and propose solutions in the field of forming a seamless educational trajectory from the pre-professional level to post-graduate professional education, updating the content of educational programs, increasing the level of engineering and technical training of entrepreneurs, profiling and separating training programs for entrepreneurs into a separate group of specialties based on a professional standard.