INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL REGULATION OF THE FORMATION OF INFORMATION CLUSTERS IN RUSSIA AND BELARUS

Abstract

In the context of global processes of information economy formation, the traditional division into industries is losing its relevance. The leading role in the world economy is shifting to transnational clusters as a system of organizational and economic relationships. Meanwhile, at present, there is no global interstate regulatory legal act that regulates the activities of clusters. The few international legal acts on the issue are regional and are not of a peremptory nature. The methodological basis of the research was various methods of information economy: the interdisciplinary method, the systemic institutional-evolutionary method, the sublimation method, the empirical virtualization method, etc. The problems of information cluster formation remain insufficiently explored in the scientific literature, but the study allows to identify similarities in the clustering policy of world leaders such as the EU, the USA and Japan for the development of a competent institutional and legal policy in the field of clustering in the Union State of Russia and Belarus as well as in the EAEU in general. On the basis of foreign experience, the main legislative acts regulating clustering processes in the Russian and Belarusian economies were compared. Based on the analysis of the legislative acts, institutional and legal mechanisms for activating and unifying the processes of forming information clusters of the Union State of Russia and Belarus are proposed.

Keywords

• information economy
• information clusters
• technology parks transboundary cooperation
• international legal norms
• legislative acts