Improving the Legal Status of Small Innovative Enterprises

The paper examines the legal regulation of the creation and operation of smaller innovative enterprises established by budgetary and autonomous scientific institutions and budgetary and autonomous educational organizations of higher education. The author in his study relies on statistics for the 15-year period of creation of small innovative enterprises. The study revealed a downward trend in the establishment of new small innovative enterprises. The actual absence of profits of small innovative enterprises from the practical application (implementation) of the results of intellectual activity has been demonstrated; almost all of their profits are formed through the sale of goods, works or services. The author analyzed the legal foundations of the functioning of small innovative enterprises, which allowed the author to identify a number of legal problems. The author proposes the ways to resolve these problems. At the end of the study, the target audience of the proposed amendments to legislation is outlined, especially for Paragraph 3.1 of Article 5 of the Federal Law of 23.08.1996 No. 127-FZ «On Science and State Scientific and Technical Policy» and Art. 103 of the Federal Law of 29.12.2012 No. 273-FZ «On Education in the Russian Federation,» as well as the projected results from their implementation.