Abstract:

Supporting local entrepreneurship by business environment institutions is essential for activating relations of local stakeholders. In the economic and social space, there are many business environment institutions supporting the economy and acting on many levels of stakeholder connections. Local economic organizations are a proposal to build and activate relations at the local level within the commune. An important role in this activation is played by local governments which, apart from carrying out their activities within the scope of their competences, play the role of an intermediary between all local stakeholders, in particular SMEs. Research on the impact of these relationships on local entrepreneurship was carried out in 2020 as part of the first stage of the Regiogmina project. The conducted research was aimed at identifying the existing mechanisms of enterprise support by local governments in Poland and in 14 European countries, as well as in South Korea and the USA, and covered the area of ​​cooperation mechanisms between local governments and entrepreneurs.