The legislative regulation of the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship in the system of the realization of the innovation policy of the Republic of Belarus

Background. In article the need for the state support and effective legislative regulation of the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship in the context of the realization of the innovation policy of the state is substantiated. The current state of the small and medium entrepreneurship in the Republic of Belarus and the legal framework regulating their activities are researched. The author's recommendations for improving the legislation of the Republic of Belarus regulating support for small and medium entrepreneurship and the realization of the state innovation policy are substantiated. Purpose. The purpose of the research is to develop recommendations for improving the legislative framework of the Republic of Belarus regulating the realization of state support for the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship in the context of the realization of the innovation policy of the state. Materials and methods. The following were used in the course of the research: scientific works on the issues of state support for the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship and legislative regulation of such support; regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus regulating public relations related to the realization of state support for the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship, the formation and realization of the innovation policy of the state; materials of the public authorities and government agencies of the Republic of Belarus. In the course of the research, general scientific, specific scientific and special research methods were used. In particular, the dialectical, formal-logical, hypothetico-deductive, comparative-legal methods, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis, analogy, scientific abstraction, induction and deduction have found application. Results. The legal prerequisites for the realization of the innovation policy of the state related to the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship are identified. The author's recommendations for improving the legislative framework of the Republic of Belarus regulating the realization of state support for the development of the small and medium entrepreneurship in the context of the realization of the innovation policy of the state are formulated. The sphere of application of results. The results of the research can be applied in lawmaking activity and in the course of further scientific research on the role of the small and medium entrepreneurship in the system of the realization of the state innovation policy.