Purpose. The purpose of the article is to identify the institutional and functional features of entrepreneurship governance in Germany, examine the distribution of functions, powers, and responsibilities among key institutions, and determine elements of the German model relevant to improving entrepreneurship governance in Ukraine. Methodology. The study applies a comparative institutional approach based on legislative acts, government and programme documents, and materials of public institutions. Comparative, structural and functional analysis, systematization, generalization, and graphical visualization are used. Findings. The German model combines federal policy coordination with decentralized implementation by the Lander and local authorities. Its key feature is the separation of policy formulation from administrative implementation, regulation, control, and financial support. Federal ministries formulate policy, while specialized institutions perform administrative, regulatory, supervisory, and financial functions. BAFA implements programmes, the Federal Cartel Office enforces competition law, the Federal Network Agency regulates network industries, and KfW provides financial support. Chambers of industry and commerce perform delegated public functions and represent business interests. The Ukrainian model is more centralized, with a less pronounced separation of functions and financial support distributed among several institutions. Originality. The scientific novelty lies in the comparative systematization of the institutional models of entrepreneurship governance in Germany and Ukraine according to the functional distribution of policy formulation, administrative implementation, regulation, control, and financial support, which makes it possible to identify differences in the degree of institutional specialization and functional separation. Practical value. The results may improve entrepreneurship governance in Ukraine by clarifying institutional responsibilities, strengthening specialization and coordination, and improving interaction between public authorities and business. 

entrepreneurship governance, public institutions, functional specialization, institutional model, multilevel governance, small and medium-sized enterprises, Germany, Ukraine 

With the development of Industry 4.0, the transformation processes are taking place at the level of the national economy. The needs for energy supply, renewal of fixed assets, expansion of production, and ensuring innovative development are growing. These transformations require the introduction of additional mechanisms to ensure environmental safety. The article investigates the principles of development and functioning of the environmental component of securing the innovative development of the national economy in Industry 4.0. The system of environmental indicators of innovative support of the economy’s industrial and technological development is monitored, namely capital investments in environmental protection, the share of publications in ecology and environment, the share of renewable energy consumption, emissions of pollutants and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A relatively high emission rate of 0.57 tons of CO2 per $ 1,000 of GDP is set and this figure is graphically visualized in Ukraine and other countries. The distribution of administrative territories according to the level of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere from stationary sources is presented. The highest values of pollutant emissions from stationary sources are observed in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions - 31.4% and 23.4%, respectively. The positive dynamics of the growth of renewable energy capacities is determined. The positive preconditions for the introduction of ecological innovations are identified, namely a new procedure for establishing and distributing the ecological tax, a new state environmental policy, bringing Ukrainian environmental policy in line with the standards of leading countries. Ukraine’s position on the Environmental Efficiency Index is determined. The main measures for the development of the environmental component of the economy in the leading countries are analyzed. Recommendations for improving the state policy of industrial and technological development in the framework of activating the environmental component are provided. 

innovations, ecological component, Industry 4.0, national economy 

The features of labour market institutes functioning in the system of regional social security are outlined. The shortcomings of labour market institutional maintenance are defined. Legal, administrative, organizational and economic directions of labour market and employment legalization are offered. 

social security of region, labour market, institutionalization, legalization, employment, social threats, dangers of social sphere