RUSSIAN REGIONS TYPOLOGY BASED ON THE CLUSTER STRUCTURES FORMATION
The paper dwells on the question of cluster-network structures localization effectiveness as a significant factor of their successful development. This is due primarily to the limited budget resources, which include targeting and effectiveness as the basic principles of expenditure. The author’s methodology of regions typology is developed through the Triple Helix Model concept of Etzkowitz-Leydesdorff. According to the Triple Helix model, the cooperation of science, business and government plays the key role in the manifestation of synergy effects within the cluster functioning framework. A system of indexes based on the evaluation of institutional sectors development and characterizing the cluster potential of the region is presented in the paper. The regions’ grouping was made on the basis of Ward’s method. It allowed to identify four groups of regions with similar indicators of the cluster potential. The results obtained served as the basis for making conclusions about the prospects for regional innovative development.