The article analyzes the current state of employment by regions. Non-traditional forms of employment in the context of the modernization of regional economies have been systematized. Atypical forms of employment have been considered: full employment in conditions of flexible forms of working time; underemployment; temporary employment; employment on the basis of secondary employment; employment contracts based on civil law; homework; work on call; distance employment; loan labor, informal employment.
The issues of innovative transformational changes in employment are the key factors of launching and support of relevant processes. Promising innovations that will radically intensify the state employment policy for urban population are outlined.
Innovative integrated program of vocational guidance is proposed to be introduced to address the lack of active career guidance policy based on the implementation of state incentives for the use of career guidance services to people of any age and stage of working life associated with higher employment promotion and creation systems providing such services and their availability.
Perspective innovative forms of implementing the policy for creating jobs for the economically active population are the following: work on the basis of the use of online communication technologies that provide communication in the current time; upgraded home-based work, within which a man in self-selected modes and locations creates a product or product component, for which independent system integrator or customer interested builds logistics of raw materials and finished products; co-working – under which legally and functionally independent actors share a certain engineering, information, communications and other infrastructure to ensure proper business environment.
In order to coordinate the atypical forms of employment special institutions are suggested to be created with the main task to organize measures to fill the gaps of atypical employment legal regulation, because the institutional framework must be adapted to innovative types of employment. 

alternative employment, labor market, globalization, modernization, social labor relations, outstaffing, outsourcing, freelancing and leasing 

The process of integration of Ukraine into the global economy sets the new ways for implementation of innovation processes in the business environment and realization of innovation capacity of regional economic systems. Therefore, one of the most important strategic national goals is to improve the structure of the national economy on the basis of further development of small business and increase its contribution into creation of innovative capacity of the region.

Clusters present one of the trends for competitive recovery of the regional and state economy. They have a strong potential for boosting the technological output level, creating favorable conditions for rapid innovation. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the development of cluster structures in Ukraine, their essential characteristics and the degree of influence on the modernization of the regional economy.

Clusters mean a combination of enterprises of various industries that do not merge into a single structure, but collaborate within a common development strategy. They allow to combine a lot of resources, including financial ones, that greatly improves the conditions for the creating competitive products and services, both in the domestic and international markets, which is the main purpose for creating the clusters.

In our opinion, the entrepreneurial cluster is a strong collaborative relationship of economic entities that are located geographically close to each other, have technological, industrial and commercial ties or are interdependent in the certain market and interested in further development of their business.

This article analyses the development of cluster structures in Ukraine, considers the issue of regulatory support of the clustering process of the state economy. It determines the fundamental differences between cluster structures and technology parks that is underlying in their different functional purpose and tasks. The basic types of innovation clusters have been researched, the degree of their influence was studied on the modernization of the regional economy. They comprise: dependent, industry, innovation and industry, pro-innovation and innovation-oriented. The development models of cluster structures and their possible application have been analyzed; they include: anticipating, maintaining and overtaking models. It has been determined that the adaptive model of cluster structures is acceptable for the regions of Ukraine because it combines the above models and provides for proper cooperation of industry sectors and producing units of various scale and degree of adaptability on the basis of developments, both in-house and the borrowed.

In conclusion, we can say that the development of innovation structures and creation of new institutional framework for joint economic activity is a promising direction of increasing innovation activity and structural modernization of the economy. This will greatly facilitate the transition of domestic production to the innovation and innovation-based development and accelerate mastering the competitive products output, increase export potential, and create favorable conditions for domestic and foreign investments. 

entrepreneurial cluster, innovation cluster, clustering process, cluster structures, innovation core, technology park, modernization 

The role of small enterprises in innovative development of region is defined. The system of principles of small entrepreneurship development is developed and the methodical aspects of estimation of its innovative activity are offered. 

small entrepreneurship, innovative development, innovative activity of small entrepreneurship