Trust as a Category that Determines the Development of Entrepreneurship in the Digital Economy

This article attempts to consider the concept of trust as an economic category important for the development of Russian entrepreneurship in the transition to the digital economy. Trust is a multifaceted concept, which is most often considered in the scientific literature from the psychological, cultural, social side. Recently, trust has been given a prominent place in the economic sphere of activity, defining it as a factor, a resource for the functioning of the economy. In the article the trust is considered, first, as the relation built in system of production relations, i.e. as an economic category. Changes in the productive forces cause changes in the production relations. And of course, in the nature of their relationship and in the implementation of public, group, personal interests. The main content of the digital economy is the release of labor from the sphere of production and circulation of goods and the transfer of these functions to artificial intelligence. This, in turn, leads to the overcoming of the traditional understanding of wage labor as the alienation of labor from the means of production. Therefore, instead of contractual relations with high transaction costs, trust and cooperation come to the fore. Effective implementation of the digital economy requires an environment that determines the development of technologies and effective interaction of economic actors. Trust as an economic, systemic category in the digital economy plays one of the main roles in the relationship of new and changed objects of activity and economic entities. In this aspect, the place of entrepreneurship in the digital economy is of interest. The article deals with changes in integral indicators illustrating the development of small enterprises and the number of the latter. A high degree of dependence of integral indicators illustrating the development of small enterprises on the degree of trust between the subjects of industrial relations is revealed. Keywords—trust, entrepreneurship, digital economy, development, integral indicators.