regions. It identifies 24 clusters and analyzes their geographical distribution, their role in regional growth, the evolution …-oriented clusters have a strong presence in the Northern states of the country, while services-oriented clusters in the Central ones …. Finally, clusters such as plastic products manufacturing; retail and eating services; food and beverage manufacturing; and …

measures based on the grouping (correlation) of states following the analysis of hierarchical ranking of clusters. To analyse … clusters hierarchical ranking the food safety indicators were used as input, dependent data. As an independent variable, with a …