Economic and geographical evaluation of the prospects of industry clustering in the Aktobe region of the Republic of Kazakhstan
The article presents the results of the economic and geographical studies of the potential of industry’s clustering in the Aktobe region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on economic and geographic analysis of the factors of industrial development, trends of change in territorial and sectoral structure, investment appeal of the industry and innovation activity of companies, promising directions of the industry’s clustering in the Aktobe region are proposed.Identification of potential industrial clusters showed that there are preconditions for the formation and development of 5 territorial industrial clusters (including 3 sectoral and 2 cross-sectoral clusters) at the current step of the industrial development in the territories of the Aktobe region. Spatial structure of potential industrial clusters was taken into account. Generalized organizational and spatial structure of Aktobe-Khromtau metallurgical cluster was illustrated and characterized as an example. Furthermore, strategical aspects of the formation, development and functioning of potential territorial industrial clusters in the Aktobe region were taken into consideration. Prioritized directions of the formation, development and functioning potential territorial industrial clusters in the Aktobe region on the basis of solutions of main strategical tasks were determined.