Innovative Clusters as a Factor of Regional Development and Country Economic Growth
The article discusses the relationship between economic development and scientific and technological progress. The modern economic development of any country is directly related to the innovative development of enterprises. Constant changes in the external environment, trends in the global market dictate requirements for accelerating the pace of scientific and technical progress, improving production indicators and working conditions at enterprises, adapting to the competitive environment of the post-industrial market, forming new sectors of the economy, and applying improved technologies active innovation. The author described the cluster approach as an effective mechanism for increasing the effectiveness of a country's economy and revealed the features of the Russian cluster policy. Also, the author discovered the features of innovation clusters, as well as problems hindering their successful functioning. Further, the author presented foreign experience in the implementation of the cluster approach and proposed activities aimed at solving these problems, defining the role of innovation clusters for the development of the region.