
Roundtable in Lida (Grodno region) with 17 people was held on August 8, 2013, including chairman of Lida district executive committee Alexander Ostrovski. The topic was: “Development of industrial and service entrepreneurship in Lida region”. Reports were made by Vladimir Karyagin, Anatoli Gromadchenko, Lilia Koval, Leonid Mastugin (director of business – incubator “Apsel”, Co.). They told about role of business – associations in development of business and advocacy, problems of lease relations, dialogue between business and authority. Alexander Ostrovski paid attention of participants to possibility of business participation in regional programs of social and economic development and marked willingness of authorities to dialogue with business.