Innovative clusters and public administration: Market failures vs government failures
Clusters and cluster policy are becoming more and more popular economic instruments, all around the world, to increase economic competitiveness of a country and promote its innovative growth. Cluster strategies are considered as an important tool of innovative development in many countries. Cluster approach is highly prospective: cluster formation and cluster development can increase competitiveness and efficiency of various regions within a country. However, clusterization of the economy could be accompanied with high concentration at industrial and regional levels and monopoly effects that could decrease economic welfare. The article analyzes key characteristics of a cluster as an economic phenomenon, provides modern venues of government innovation policy on the basis of cluster approach and investigates strengths and weaknesses of government cluster policy.