violations, and simplified mathematical models [7].
According to T. Bass, the strategies related to the selection, including the
selection of clusters, are not practiced from their high scientific quality, but through
the attractiveness of certain categories of the electorate. Politicians are not able to
"select clusters" more efficiently than market actors. Officials also lack the skills and
experience of the clusters they are assigned to deal with [8].
State support of innovative processes of clustering of Ukrainian regions should
be oriented towards the creation of:
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infrastructural conditions for activation of innovative development in all
sectors of the economy and overcoming territorial disparities;
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prerequisites for effective information, consulting, marketing, resource,
analytical, financial, personnel support for clustering processes, including the initial
organization of conditions for the implementation of innovations.
The principle of adaptability of cluster policy in accordance with changes in the
changing business environment. Clusters are dynamic structures. Successful today,
tomorrow they can lose their prospects, and vice versa, the implementation of some
joint innovation projects can drag on for years. The difference in the dynamics and
efficiency of cluster development creates risks in terms of policy effectiveness: it may
lose its relevance. In order to minimize the risks of implementing the innovative cluster
policy of the regions of Ukraine, continuous monitoring and evaluation of activities is
needed, creating an information basis for adjusting the mechanisms of impact [9, p.84].
The basis of cluster policy in Ukraine should be adaptability, which will allow to react
promptly to the growing social needs, the variability of the social and economic
situation in the country.
The fundamental principles for the formation of an innovative cluster policy are
the coordination, consolidation, and harmonization of economic interests in the
paradigm of "government -business-population" relations.
The principle of coherence of interests is determined using a balance of benefits
at the level of "state-regions" relations; "Business population"; «Branch-regions». The
implementation of the cluster policy provides for a set of activities, in particular of a
regulatory nature, to determine the interdependence of the interests of cluster members,
and form a mechanism for harmonization.
Currently, there are significant difficulties in ensuring the effectiveness of
regulation of economic interests. A significant part of them is due to the lack of
elaboration of theoretical approaches to the establishment of regularities in the
development of cluster relations that evolve over the attraction of key principles
(consolidation and harmonization) of the economic interests of the government,
business, and the population. It does not allow us to fully determine the trends in the
development of clustering processes, understand and anticipate economic events.
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