The author describes the ties between various groups of entrepreneurship and enterprise's behaviour in the market. He pays a particular attention to internal and external entrepreneurship that affects the sphere of operational management and to the costs related thereto as well as to the competitive position in the market. Wider highlighted are the socioeconomic manifestations and effects of regional entrepreneurship. The author emphasises in his article that regional entrepreneurship plays — besides supporting the economic growth — an important role in formation of regional entrepreneurship's awareness and culture that purposefully uses local information and various streams of entrepreneurial behaviours, including technological entrepreneurship.
Rural small business is developing in much more difficult conditions than economic subjects in cities. Rural entrepreneurship to smaller degree takes advantage of consultancy, training and UE help. Owners of small companies, without too big development ambitions, are more flexible than bigger companies, therefore they are less affected by the current crisis than the latter. Rural entrepreneurs and their companies begin to have a bigger role in rural economy, however, they constitute a group of not very well-organised people. Local government do not take enough advantage of the possibilities they have to create local entrepreneurship. There is an urgent need to pay more attention to rural entrepreneurship requirements and problems which could be helped by special projects focussed especially on rural areas with difficult developmental conditions.