The experience of studying the best practices of cluster development in Russia: the Kaluga Region

Abstract

The article analyzes the practice of cluster development of the Kaluga region. The authors study the main social and economic results of the investment and the ways of organization of cluster development management. The main mechanisms contributing to the positive results are identified. They are in creation of the infrastructure fields and the special way of building the system of management and of organization of the cluster development. One of the approaches to the organization of the system of management of the cluster development is the division of administrative and communicative functions and the functions of the financial management and of the infrastructure development. The article studies the organizational decisions for the realization of the principle of functional division and also shows one of the ways of the decision of the problem of coordination between the organizations included in the cluster.

Keywords

• cluster development
• investments
• infrastructure sites
• strategic development of the regions
• kaluga region