and innovation potential, the cluster approach has become appealing in different fields of economic policy. In particular … cluster-based instruments are in integral part of EU regional policy (Christensen et al., 2011). In most EU countries cluster … diverse national and regional programmes were set up to promote cluster development (Török, 2012). Although the cluster …

providing funding for infrastructure formation. The selection of cluster initiatives was based on applications from regional … sectors, as shown by studies of the Russian Cluster Observatory. But a lot of potential clusters in Russia is not formed due … as areas of geographical concentration of small and medium businesses (SME). We also wanted to check whether the existing …