State Stimulation of Cluster Initiatives in Business

Abstract

The authors substantiate the necessity for state stimulation of cluster initiatives in entrepreneurship, study the experience of developed countries in the sphere of state stimulation of cluster initiatives in entrepreneurship, and give recommendations for improving the system of state stimulation of cluster initiatives in entrepreneurship. As a result of the research, the authors conclude that at present, innovational economy is an economic system which functions on the basis of business networks, as it is this model that provides innovational cooperation between specialists of various scientific and technical spheres, between organizations various sizes (large, medium, and small), and between groups of companies of various types of economic activities. Cluster strategy in modern global practice is one of the most important tools of state policy of increasing competitiveness of national economies. Thus, the most competitive spheres develop on the basis of cluster principle, and support for cluster building stipulates the growth of competitiveness of economies of the countries on the whole. That’s why state stimulation of cluster initiatives in business stipulates the development of entrepreneurship and of national economy on the whole.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n1p133