МИРОВЫЕ ТРЕНДЫ В РАЗВИТИИ ИННОВАЦИОННОГО ПРЕДПРИНИМАТЕЛЬСТВА В СРАВНЕНИИ С НИГЕРИЕЙ Офем Лекам Уджонг, аспирант кафедры инженерного бизнеса и управления предприятием. <...> E mail: Fred.offem@yahoo.com Аннотация: Нигерия относится к развивающимся рынкам со смешанной экономикой. <...> Страна богата природными ресурсами, имеет хорошо развитое законодательство, финансовый, коммуникационный, транспортный сектора. <...> По размеру ВВП экономика Нигерии в 2014 году стала крупнейшей в Африке, её размер составил более чем 500 миллиардов долл. <...> Ключевые слова: инновации, исследования и разработки, предпринимательство, экономика, бизнес TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE WORLD COMPARABLE WITH NIGERIA Ofem Lekam Ujong, PhD Research Student, Engineering Business & Industrial Management. <...> E mail: Fred.offem@yahoo.com Abstract: Nigeria is classified as a mixed economy emerging market, and has already reached lower middle income status according to the World Bank with its abundant supply of natural resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, transport sectors and stock exchange (the Nigerian Stock Exchange), which is the second largest in Africa. <...> In 2014, Nigeria's economy (GDP) became the largest in Africa, worth more than $500 billion, and overtook South Africa to become the world's 21st largest economy. (World Economic Outlook Database, October 2014) Furthermore, the debt-toGDP ratio is only 11 percent (8 percent below the 2012 ratio). <...> Despite this glaring facts, there is a major gap in the industrial development process of Nigeria in the past till date. <...> Index terms: Innovation, Research & Development, Entrepreneurship, Economy, Business Introduction The dynamic development of innovative entrepreneurship is one of the main components of an innovative economy. <...> Innovation in modern economies have shown themselves not only as a powerful strategic tool, but also as the most stable and inexhaustible component of the productive forces especially upcoming economic and management problems of innovative entrepreneurship in the first decade of the twenty-first century. <...> WORLD STATISTICS ON INNOVATION AND ENTERPRENEUSHIP The world leaders in the share of expenditure on research and development is characterized by the following data as a percentage of GDP: 2.98Japan, 2.69 – Germany, 2.48 – United <...>