Social Entrepreneurship as A Promising Way to Economic Security

This study is relevant because of the significant capability of the social entrepreneurship to ensure economic security of the state by solving social problems. In this context, the article aims to set out the theoretical social entrepreneurship framework, to study its experience and to reveal current problems of development of the social business as well as the ways to solve them. The concept and essential features of social entrepreneurship are studied with the historical and genetic method. Activity approach provided the basis to explore social entrepreneurship as a specific kind of human activity. Statistic procedures enabled to make sense of the social entrepreneurship development figures. The article considers different approaches to the phenomenon social entrepreneurship and the need to render it with a separate law is substantiated. Moreover, it analyses the current social entrepreneurship trends in Russia, considers factors presently impeding the growth of its importance for the Russian economy, suggests solutions to some organisational and economic problems in its development. The article is useful for potential social entrepreneurs and public bodies, which may use its conclusions for the development of state and municipal small and medium business support programmes by separating the social entrepreneurship sector and establishing regional and municipal social entrepreneurship development centres to further the idea.