Assessment of Entrepreneurial Agenda's Relevance through Scientometrics' Prism

The paper presents an assessment of importance of the entrepreneurship development based on an analysis of publication activity in the considered field. It is assumed that high publication activity is one of the indicators of the importance of issues related to the development of entrepreneurial activity, and a high percentage of citations indicates a significant interest in the results of such studies. The development of entrepreneurship in general, the introduction of entrepreneurial approaches in various areas of life is one of the main elements an effective economy is based upon. These issues become especially relevant in the framework of the government's efforts for the sustainable development of the economy, including increasing the country's technological potential. The study was carried out on the basis of a scientometric analysis of information extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and RISC databases. It revealed a high interest in the field of entrepreneurship both in the world and in Russia. According to the Web of Science Core Collection database, Russia ranks 11th in the world in the number of publications in this field, and 6th in the Scopus database. The proportion of publications on this subject included in the top 1% of the most cited publications in Russia is higher than the proportion of such publications in the total set of publications in general, which points to their relevance and topicality. At the same time, the number of research results in Russian in the Russian Index of Science Citation (RISC) is inferior to the total number of publications in international databases in this field, which indicates, on the one hand, the openness of Russian researchers to the international community, and on the other hand, a possible focus on the global agenda missing national specifics. In this regard, the conclusion is drawn that it is necessary to develop science in this field oriented specifically to the Russian market, and, in particular, to increase the number of studies at the intersection of entrepreneurship and engineering / computer science for the development of technological entrepreneurship.