Methodological Approaches to Theoretical Construction of the Model of Legal Support for Environmental Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Introduction: the article is devoted to the substantiation of methodological approaches to the theoretical design of a model of legal support for environmental entrepreneurship, as an effective tool for solving environmental problems, which result in environmental pollution and a decrease in the quality of life and environmental protection of Russian citizens to a critical level. Aim: to form a holistic scientific understanding of methodological approaches to designing a model of legal support for environmental entrepreneurship. Research methods: empirical (comparison, description, interpretation); theoretical (formal and dialectical logic). Results: the effectiveness of the proposed new integrated scientific and methodological approach to designing a model of legal support for Russian environmental entrepreneurship, conceptually based on the creative development of a socially entrepreneurial ideology, as a methodological basis for solving major environmental problems, is proved. Expected results of scientific research on the basis of a new integrated scientific and methodological approach and their novelty: as a result of scientific research, the theoretical social and legal model for ensuring environmental entrepreneurship will be constructed for the first time, reflecting the main stages of its construction, targeting and functioning at the level of the integral concept, and also the prospects its practical implementation. The scientific novelty of the research is to develop a new idea that the methodological potential of social entrepreneurship as a tool for researching processes and changes in the social sphere should be in demand when justifying the model for ensuring Russian environmental entrepreneurship and when forecasting the future development of such socially important areas as ecology and energy. The novelty of the proposed formulation and solution of the stated problem, based on an integrated methodological approach and applied in the aggregate of general scientific, interdisciplinary, private, theoretical and empirical research methods, is provided by the theoretical development of the model for the development of Russian environmental entrepreneurship, represented as a set of systemically interrelated socio-entrepreneurial legal elements, taking into account the focus on improving the quality of life and environmental protection of Russian citizens, which has many levels: system, conceptual and instrumental structure.

Environmental Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Catalyst for Social Change: A Systematic Review as a Basis for Future Research

“…The key drivers such as funding, credit, capital financing, investing in environmental entrepreneurship, and crowdfunding, can be classified under green finance mechanisms in support of environmental entrepreneurship with social orientation [9,29], [30][31][32][33], [35,36], [44,45]. Funding of enterprises or ventures is always a challenge, more specifically financing environmental entrepreneurship.…”

“…Green proofing as advocated by [43] gives rise to a consultancy option, which the current authors deduce that the programme can be utilised to facilitate and manage green change dynamics. Some of the pillars supporting environmental entrepreneurship are infrastructure, skills and education, funding, (environmental entrepreneurship incubators) products, markets affordability and political will [12,29,30,33,43]. However, the latter financial key drivers cannot operate in isolation and therefore, may need non-financial support in the form of behavioural change.…”

“…Investors in environmental entrepreneurship, especially in these sectors, are cautious investors, where scepticism and reluctance arise when it comes to investing to environmental entrepreneurship enterprises. In [33], the author serves to close the gap of financing by introducing crowdfunding. Crowdfunding can be explained as the sourcing of funds through other mechanisms within the lenses of cultural and social norms and creating initiatives online to raise funds and finance.…”