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Popelo, O. V. (2014). Pidpryyemnyts'ki klastery yak innovatsiyna dominanta modernizatsiyi ekonomiky rehionu [Entrepreneurial clusters as an innovation dominant of regional economy modernization]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 72(2), 95-105. [in Ukrainian].
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The process of integration of Ukraine into the global economy sets the new ways for implementation of innovation processes in the business environment and realization of innovation capacity of regional economic systems. Therefore, one of the most important strategic national goals is to improve the structure of the national economy on the basis of further development of small business and increase its contribution into creation of innovative capacity of the region.

Clusters present one of the trends for competitive recovery of the regional and state economy. They have a strong potential for boosting the technological output level, creating favorable conditions for rapid innovation. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the development of cluster structures in Ukraine, their essential characteristics and the degree of influence on the modernization of the regional economy.

Clusters mean a combination of enterprises of various industries that do not merge into a single structure, but collaborate within a common development strategy. They allow to combine a lot of resources, including financial ones, that greatly improves the conditions for the creating competitive products and services, both in the domestic and international markets, which is the main purpose for creating the clusters.

In our opinion, the entrepreneurial cluster is a strong collaborative relationship of economic entities that are located geographically close to each other, have technological, industrial and commercial ties or are interdependent in the certain market and interested in further development of their business.

This article analyses the development of cluster structures in Ukraine, considers the issue of regulatory support of the clustering process of the state economy. It determines the fundamental differences between cluster structures and technology parks that is underlying in their different functional purpose and tasks. The basic types of innovation clusters have been researched, the degree of their influence was studied on the modernization of the regional economy. They comprise: dependent, industry, innovation and industry, pro-innovation and innovation-oriented. The development models of cluster structures and their possible application have been analyzed; they include: anticipating, maintaining and overtaking models. It has been determined that the adaptive model of cluster structures is acceptable for the regions of Ukraine because it combines the above models and provides for proper cooperation of industry sectors and producing units of various scale and degree of adaptability on the basis of developments, both in-house and the borrowed.

In conclusion, we can say that the development of innovation structures and creation of new institutional framework for joint economic activity is a promising direction of increasing innovation activity and structural modernization of the economy. This will greatly facilitate the transition of domestic production to the innovation and innovation-based development and accelerate mastering the competitive products output, increase export potential, and create favorable conditions for domestic and foreign investments.

Keywords:

entrepreneurial cluster, innovation cluster, clustering process, cluster structures, innovation core, technology park, modernization