The entry of the Ukrainian regions to a qualitatively new level strengthens the
importance of consolidating the key interests of using the potential of cluster policy.
The content of this principle is to strengthen, unite the fundamental interests, actions,
capitals of clustering subjects around the idea of the innovative development of
regions, implement the corresponding programs that ensure the implementation of
cluster initiatives. The implementation of these processes should occur by knowledge
of the patterns, their manifestation, and the definition of the instrumentation of
balancing.
Economic interests are an objectively evocative manifestation of attention to
commercial goods, generated by a significant benefit for financial entities and
generated by the desire of these subjects to satisfy their needs when entering into
economic relations of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption [10].
Therefore, an important principle of cluster policy is the harmonization of economic
interests.
The principle of harmonization of subjects’ interests of cluster policy is achieved
by ensuring: legality; property rights; stimulating the activity of the business
environment; harmonious interaction in the system of relations "state-regions";
"business-population"; "branch-regions" [11].
We recommend considering the harmonization of the interests of using the
potential of cluster policy as a conscious aspiration of its subjects to realize both their
interests and the interests of other participants in the cluster economy to maximize the
effect of synergetic effects and ensure the stable development of regions.
Thus, it is advisable to objectively comprehend the operational and long-term
interests of the government, business and the population in shaping and realizing the
potential of cluster policy. Representatives of business, regional management argue
that synergistic effects obtained in the framework of clustered education contribute to
the growth of the mass of profit and the level of capitalization; increase the incomes of
the population and the local budget; convincingly solve social problems. The
intervention of the state in the allocation of resources, the desire for excessive
centralization of managerial functions in an information-changing society weakens the
management's willingness to intensify the processes of clustering.
In the system of activities of regional management, the urgent need arises for the
strategic goal of innovative cluster development taking into account the principles of
consolidation and harmonization of compelling interests (Table 2).
The implementation of this strategic goal of innovative clustering involves the
development of a methodological tool for assessing key interests in the management
principles of consolidation and harmonization.
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