ASSESSMENT OF COMPETITIVE POTENTIAL OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS IN OMSK REGION
The article describes practical aspects of assessing the competitive potential of industrial clusters in Omsk region. One of the urgent tasks today is the identification and formation of clusters at the regional level, which requires evaluation of their competitive potential. The priority of the cluster approach identified in the strategy of the Omsk region, but the results of cluster formation do not meet the stated in the strategy. Therefore, the study aims to evaluate the competitive potential of industrial clusters in Omsk region. In the first stage, a qualitative assessment of the competitive potential of industrial clusters by examining the strengths and arising in connection with this opportunity. In the second stage by structuring approaches to the content category of competitive potential identified key indicators that were used in the quantitative evaluation of the competitive potential of industrial clusters of the region. The assessment led to the conclusion that the cluster of Omsk region, formed and included in the Federal register, on quantitative indicators of competitive potential is high. Timber cluster and the cluster of high technology require changes in the approaches to their formation and development. Quantitative assessment of the competitive potential has allowed to identify the bottlenecks in the timber and the cluster of high technologies and formulate recommendations for change in cluster policy in the region. The study showed the need to assess not only the quality of potential industrial clusters, but also the need for quantitative assessment, based on the authors' recommendations proposed for the development of methods of evaluation of the competitive potential.