Supporting entrepreneurship as an instrument of managing local development

Praca poświęcona jest wykorzystaniu możliwości, jakie daje wspieranie przedsiębiorczości przez jednostki samorządu terytorialnego, oraz próbie oceny wpływu tych działań na rozwój lokalny.The aim of the paper is to describe the instruments of supporting local development used by the local authority. Presented analyses are based on author’s research conducted in 47 municipalities of Silesian Voivodeship in 2008, focused on forms of supporting the rise of entrepreneurship. Activities of territorial self-government units enhanced shaping conditions of local development being under self-government administration. Research have demonstrated that in the researched municipolities these instruments are as follows: strategic and operational planning of local development and its coordination, creating industrial areas, use of local resources, development of financing and finance instruments of support, marketing instruments, including designing the places’ image, and also land development planning. In the process of creating socio-economic development on a local level self-government authorities use varied group instruments of socio-economic impact. The most popular are: legislative and administrative, institutional and organisational, financial, planning, and infrastructural