Government support of social entrepreneurship development: institutional and methodological aspect

Abstract

The article considers the essence of the concept of "social entrepreneurship" taking into account the approaches of national and foreign researchers, reflects the retrospective of this concept. In order to study the institutional and methodological aspects of government support of social entrepreneurship in Russia, the approaches to the analysis of the concept of social entrepreneurship are studied. The characteristics of the main participants of the institute of social entrepreneurship are given, also the priorities of state policy in the field of socially-oriented non-profit organizations and legal regulation of this sphere are considered. In the course of the analysis of the legal framework of regulation of social entrepreneurship in Russia, the expediency of fixing the concept of "social entrepreneurship" at the legislative level and the mechanism of its functioning are revealed.