organization of manufactures with high technologies. An essential component of
technological efficiency is the completion of production cycles oriented to waste-free
production and a gradual transition to resource-saving technologies.
Social efficiency expresses the ability of the region to meet social needs and
provide expanded reproduction of the domestic product. The criteria for social
effectiveness of cluster policy are:
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formation and growth of social capital, which affects the competitiveness of
the organizations that make up the cluster;
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level of development of human resources of the cluster, characterized by
indicators of staff qualifications and the quality of educational cooperation between
business and universities within the framework of cluster development;
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improving of the life quality under the influence of regional clustering.
The territorial effectiveness of development is of an integral nature and unites all
the foregoing aspects. At the same time, it has an independent meaning, since it is
connected with the processes of rational allocation of productive forces, the
improvement of the territorial organization of production and the resettlement of the
population. Therefore, we recommend justifying, identifying and analyzing clustering
processes in the region. It is advisable to identify a number of indicators that allow us
to assess the impact of clustering on the level of development of the territory. The
following indicators are most in demand and corresponding statistical reports: sectoral
structure of the region's economy; the share of products produced within the regional
clusters in the ASU or GDP; the volume of exports of the cluster's products and its
share in the total amount of exports of the territory, the size of tax revenues from the
cluster participants and their share in the total volume of tax revenues of the region;
the indicator of the level of employment in the cluster and its share in the overall
employment indicator; an index of growth in the added value of a cluster.
It is one should expect from the effectiveness of developing, implementing and
monitoring the implementation of cluster policy a high synergetic effect of managerial
influence on processes of economic and social growth; attraction of investments and
innovations; the newest formats of interaction between the science of education and
business. In general, it is necessary to recognize the high competitive potential of
cluster policy in comparison with other types of policies for systems development.
Strategic goal and principles of cluster policy formation. The basic problem of
effective use of the potential of cluster policy is how to find a balance between the
differently directed interests of the subjects of cluster relations - government, business
and the population. It permeates all the levels of the socio-economic system. There is
no universal solution to this problem since interests are a dynamic category. The
process of finding mechanisms for reconciling interests is being complicated by the
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