Entrepreneurship cross-border cooperation from the participants’ point of view

Abstract

Results of empirical research of cross-border cooperation of enterprises in the regions of Belarus bordering to UE are discussed. Research was carried out in 2009-2011. The purpose of research was to reveal the character, the forms and the scale of entrepreneurship cross-border cooperation from the participants’ point of view. The basic method of research included interviewing of selected respondents according to standardized schemes developed for three groups of respondents: institutional structures, households, heads or managers of small and medium enterprises. As a result of research a hypothesis was raised about an opportunity of stimulation of cross-border cooperation through the "economic washing out of the border". Both potential contribution to regional development and the probable threats to its stability were taken in to account in the suggestions preparation process.