ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SECURITY IN THE FUNCTIONING OF CLUSTER STRUCTURES
In the modern world, one of the priority problems is to ensure the economic security of both the world community and individual states, regions, municipalities, business entities and individuals. In recent years, quite a lot of attention has been paid to the consideration of the essence of economic security, and many approaches have been identified to determine its content. The authors carried out a content analysis of the definitions of the concept of "economic security" in order to systematize the distinguished characteristics of this category. The paper raises an important problem of the need to consider economic security at the level of integrated associations of organizations, since in modern realities there are many forms of integration that are subject to the negative impact of risks and threats, but at the same time have distinctive features and specifics of activity. Particular attention is focused on the need to form a system for ensuring the economic security of cluster structures as one of the most promising forms of integration interaction between representatives of business, science, education and government, focused on increasing the competitiveness of cluster members and their territories.