Modeling the competitive environment of the entrepreneurship cluster

Abstract

The paper aims to verify the hypothesis about cooperation expediency of different in scale and similar in activity entities in the form of the entrepreneurship cluster for ensuring energy needs of the region. The integral coefficients of economic development of the innovative component of industrial enterprises on energy activity, the financial component of communal enterprises for heat supply, the readiness of small enterprises operating in the energy industry for innovative transformations has been analysed. Modeling of the competitive environment of the entrepreneurship cluster allowed to reveal logical interrelation between the level of technological changes in industry and technological capabilities of communal and small enterprises and to define their sectoral positions.