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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2019-5-1-118-125

INTELLECTUALLY-INNOVATIVE CLUSTERS  
AS THE BASIS OF INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT

Oleg Kuzmin1, Natalia Stanasiuk2, Olexandra Vivchar3

Abstract. The purpose of the paper is the formation of a new type of industrial clusters as a modern basis for the 
spatial development of industrial potential. Methodology. The methodological basis of the article is methods of 
scientific cognition, which allow revealing the essence of the clustering process. In particular, the following 
methods are used: fuzzy cluster analysis – for the construction of intellectual-innovative industrial clusters; 
grouping – for the determination of types of intellectually-innovative industrial clusters; systematization – for 
studying foreign experience; abstraction – for the formation of theoretical generalization and conclusions. Results. 
Foreign experience of effective cluster structures creation in the industrial sector of the economy is analysed 
and the necessity of establishing cooperation between education, science, and business structures is proved. By 
means of the indistinct S-averages method, taking into account indicators of development of industrial potential 
intellectual and innovative components, measures matrices of Ukraine’s administrative-territorial units belonging 
to four clusters have been developed, each of the clusters differs by the development level of corresponding 
component (very high, high, average, and low). On the basis of the achieved results, the conclusion is made that it 
is necessary to create intellectually-innovative industrial clusters in which administrative-territorial units with the 
high development level of intellectual potential will act as a catalyst of innovative development of the industrial 
potential. The role of the state is defined as an activator of establishing cooperation between education, science, 
and business structures. It was offered to work out the conception of cluster policy and distinguish pilot projects in 
the industrial sector of the economy taking into account modern directions of the global economic development. 
Global practical experience of stimulation of industrial potential innovative development is generalized on a cluster 
basis. With the aim to institutionalize the activity of intellectually-innovative industrial clusters creation, it is offered 
to use a cluster passport with the introduction of such sections as innovativeness of a project and relevance to the 
strategic targets of the state economic development. Practical implications. Practical implications are related to the 
possibility of establishing an effective dialogue not only between business structures but also with educational 
establishments, scientific institutions, and government bodies. Value/originality lies in the development of a typology 
of industrial clusters taking into account indicators of development of intellectual and innovative components and 
the formation on this basis of the cluster concept of the development of industrial potential.

Key words: cluster, innovations, innovative development, industrial potential, intellectual component.

JEL Classification: O31, F63

Corresponding author:
1 Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine.
E-mail: oleg.y.kuzmin@lpnu.ua
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6014-6437
2 Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine.
E-mail: ovssns@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6885-9431
3 Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine.
E-mail: 63vivchar@gmail.com

1. Introduction
Under the condition of the current situation of 

protracted financial-economic crisis in Ukraine, cluster 
organization of industrial production is considered 
to be a stimulator of transition to the innovative 
development model. The cluster approach to the 
industrial potential development will promote the 
increase of its competitiveness due to establishing an 

effective dialogue not only between business structures 
but also with educational establishments, scientific 
institutions, and government bodies. We should 
note that, according to the research conducted by the 
international agency Bloomberg in 2016, Ukraine 
is in the list of top-50 countries of the world by the 
innovative index value and on the 5th place by the level 
of educational component development (Bloomberg 



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Innovation Index, 2016). Creation of Single European 
scientific space still remains an urgent issue nowadays, 
which will allow creating favourable conditions to carry 
out scientific researches and increase the effectiveness 
of scientific developments. 

Creation of intellectually-innovative industrial clusters 
in Ukraine will get the knowledge resource closer to 
enterprise structures, make the transfer of knowledge 
faster, and provide a gradual transition to the development 
of industrial potential on the innovative basis.  
To achieve this purpose, there are the following tasks:  
to study foreign experience of effective cluster structures 
creation in the industrial sector of the economy; to carry 
out clusterization of administrative-territorial units of 
Ukraine by the indexes of development of industrial 
potential intellectual and innovative components; to 
work out the conceptual principles of intellectually-
innovative industrial clusters creation.

2. Foreign experience of cluster creation
It should be noted that А. Marshal was among the 

first who defined advantages of establishing network 
collaboration between economic agents, examining 
the industrial regions of Great Britain (industrial 
agglomerations) (2008). Ideas as to advantages of 
network collaboration became the basis for cluster 
theory development. According to М. Porter, a cluster 
unites not only interdependent companies but also 
scientific research institutions, higher educational 
establishments, and other organizations that 
complement each other (1990).

In European countries, cluster development 
of industrial potential is one of the conditions of 
competitiveness growth of national economy. In 
particular, Strategy of industry competitiveness 
growth on cluster basis was worked out in Slovenia. 
The core documents of cluster policy development in 
the mentioned countries are the European Regional 
Charter and the Cluster Initiative Greenbook.

Successful operation of industrial clusters is 
determined by maintaining a stimulation policy aimed at 
establishing cooperation between research institutions, 
universities, and industrial sector. The example of such 
successful collaboration is Silicon Valley in the USA, 
establishing partnership relations between Stanford 
University and hi-tech enterprises in the field of 
electronics became the basis for its development.

As a result, the level of economic development of the 
region rose considerably, new workplaces appeared, 
and the level of innovativeness of industrial projects 
increased. The launch of the plant producing electronic 
computing machines in 1956 became a significant 
result of the introduction of scientific developments in 
industrial production. Today, clusterization is the basis 
for defining priorities of innovative policy and working 
out investment-innovative programs in the region.

Thus, the intellectual potential is the basis for 
innovative development of the industrial potential, 
and its accumulation will become the key factor for 
the transition to the innovative economy. Therefore, 
higher educational establishments and scientific 
research institutions must occupy a central position 
in modern innovative clusters. In this case, the role of 
academic establishments is to train proper specialists, 
and upgrade the employees’ qualification, the task of 
scientific institutions is to carry out scientific researches 
focused on market needs. Taking into account foreign 
experience, colleges must be located near the sites of 
industrial enterprises in order to provide practical part 
of the educational process, and universities location 
should be in the centre of development of a certain 
type of industrial activity in order to ensure the solving 
of current and strategic development issues (Druhov, 
2012). There is no single opinion as to scientific 
research institutions because scientific structural units 
of universities can carry out scientific researches. The 
growth of their activity will lead to developing a new 
type of research universities able to become centres of 
cluster formation.

In Е. Mansfield’s opinion, scientific researches of the 
applied nature are the basis of successful economic 
development of a country, and improvement of national 
economic competitiveness (1998). H. Etzkowitz and 
L. Leydesdorff consider the development of “triple 
spiral” between a production sector (enterprise 
structures), intellectual infrastructure (research 
institutions, universities), and management bodies 
(state authorities, local self-government authorities) 
to be the basis for the economic development of 
innovative type (2000). We agree that establishing 
effective ties between the mentioned participants will 
allow setting up a creative environment in the country 
capable of generating new knowledge with the aim of 
their practical application in the industrial economic 
sector.

3. Clusterization of administrative-territorial 
units of Ukraine

According to Ukrainian scientists, cluster approach is 
an effective means of transition of industrial potential 
onto innovative development basis (Zhalila, 2014; 
Kulishov, 2013; Khmara, 2013). In addition, an 
innovative cluster gets a boost for the development 
due to the high innovative ability of cluster’s 
participants (Mazniev, 2013). L. І. Fedulova points 
out that development of clusterization will promote 
technological development of industrial potential that 
will assure organization of much higher technological 
approaches in the national economy (2010). 

Main obstacles, according to V. Heiets, on the way 
to the industrial development on the innovative basis 
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and applied researches, shortage of skilled workforce, 
deterioration of investment climate in the country, low 
level of innovative infrastructure development, political 
and economic instability (2015). In addition, the 
scientist proves the necessity of establishing cooperation 
between the state, science, education, and enterprise 
structures with the aim to eliminate the development of 
negative tendencies. 

In order to determine spatial features of the 
development of intellectual and innovative components, 
we suggest using indicators provided in the work 
(Kuzmin, Shpak &Stanasiuk, 2017).

The system of indicators, which characterizes cluster’s 
constituents, includes:

for evaluation of the development level of educational 
constituent:
- the share of students of higher educational 
establishments of I-IV levels of accreditation in the 
number of population, %;
- number of higher educational establishments of I-IV 
levels of accreditation, units;

for evaluation of the development level of scientific 
constituent:
- ratio of researchers in the number of economically 
active population, %;
- number of scientific organizations, units;
- the share of scientific and scientific-technical works in 
gross regional product, %;

for evaluation of the development level of innovative 
constituent:
- the share of industrial enterprises that introduce 
innovations, %;
- the share of industrial enterprises that introduce 
market innovations, %;
- technological innovativeness of industrial enterprises, 
units per 1 industrial enterprise;
- product innovativeness of industrial enterprises, units 
per 1 industrial enterprise;
- a number of industrial enterprises that supplied 
innovative products outside Ukraine, units.

The system of indicators was worked out taking 
into account possibilities of getting relevant statistic 
data from the website of the State Statistics Service of 
Ukraine.

The research was carried out in 25 administrative-
territorial units of Ukraine by means of the indistinct 
S-averages method that provides the best results under 
the condition of the vagueness of information.

Regarding that S value is determined by an expert 
method; we suggest distinguishing four clusters 
regarding the development levels of certain constituents 
(very high, high, average, and low).

Each administrative territorial unit, to a certain extent 
(from 0 to 1), belongs to a certain cluster. None of the 
clusters can contain all elements or, vice versa, be empty.

The following matrix, built with the formula 
(Taraskina, 2013), is used to define the final result:

M

m m ... m

m m ... m

... ... ... ...

m m ... m

11 12 1l

21 22 2l

c1 c2 cl

=



















,                  (1)

where: М – a matrix of the degree of belonging, mij – 
degree of belonging of j administrative-territorial unit to 
i cluster.

The results of non-distinct clusterization of 
administrative-territorial units of Ukraine by the indexes of 
intellectual constituent development are shown in Table 1.

Taking into account the indexes of development of 
academic and scientific constituents, the biggest cluster 
is the third one, which comprises 16 administrative-
territorial units. Administrative-territorial units belonging 
to the first cluster (Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Odesa, and 
Kharkiv regions) concentrate basic relative share of 
academic and scientific establishments of Ukraine. 

However, the inner structure of the cluster is 
too complex because the degree of belonging 
of regions ranges from 0,35 (Kharkiv region) to 
0,90 (Dnipropetrovsk region) that explains the high 
degree of variation of other indexes. 

The same situation is observed in the fourth cluster, 
which consists of Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, and 
Chernivtsi regions that are characterized by far lower 
indexes of intellectual constituent development. 

The most favourable conditions for accumulation of 
the intellectual potential are in the city of Kyiv, which is 
the leader by indexes of development of both academic 
and scientific constituents.

Specific indexes were used to study the innovative 
constituent that allowed analysing the product, 
technological and market innovativeness of industrial 
enterprises, as well as the level of innovations transfer 
(Table 2).

It’s worth mentioning that the first cluster is the biggest 
by size on a quantitative criterion and administrative-
territorial units that it consists of concentrate the bulk 
of innovatively active industrial enterprises. 

Administrative-territorial units characterized by the 
high level of innovations transfer are the part of the 
fourth cluster. Administrative-territorial units, which 
belong to the second cluster, are characterized by high 
indexes of market innovativeness. The lowest indexes 
of innovative activity are specific for administrative-
territorial units of the third cluster.

Administrative-territorial units of Ukraine were 
grouped by the levels of intellectual and innovative 
constituent’s growth of the industrial potential in Table 3.

The characteristic feature of intellectually-innovative 
clusters creation is that attention is focused not on 
the separate industrial enterprises but on establishing 
cooperation between research institutions and business 
structures. Such clusters are able to grow under the 
condition of a high frequency of ideas generating 
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Table 1
The matrix of belonging degree of spatial concentration of intellectual constituent to four clusters

Number of a cluster Administrative-
territorial units

Number of a cluster
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

+ Vinnytsia 0,02 0,00 0,89 0,09
+ Volyn 0,01 0,00 0,94 0,05

+ Dnipropetrovsk 0,90 0,01 0,04 0,06
+ Donetsk 0,07 0,00 0,70 0,23
+ Zhytomyr 0,01 0,00 0,95 0,04
+ Zakarpattia 0,02 0,00 0,88 0,10

+ Zaporizhzhia 0,19 0,01 0,13 0,67
+ Ivano-Frankivsk 0,01 0,00 0,96 0,03
+ Kyiv 0,05 0,00 0,66 0,28
+ Kirovohrad 0,02 0,00 0,87 0,11
+ Luhansk 0,04 0,00 0,78 0,18

+ Lviv 0,74 0,01 0,10 0,15
+ Mykolaiv 0,17 0,01 0,18 0,63

+ Odesa 0,52 0,01 0,20 0,27
+ Poltava 0,03 0,00 0,84 0,13
+ Rivne 0,02 0,00 0,88 0,10

+ Sumy 0,03 0,00 0,19 0,78
+ Ternopil 0,04 0,00 0,77 0,19

+ Kharkiv 0,35 0,30 0,15 0,20
+ Kherson 0,00 0,00 0,97 0,03
+ Khmelnytskyi 0,01 0,00 0,95 0,04
+ Cherkasy 0,03 0,00 0,64 0,33

+ Chernivtsi 0,01 0,00 0,08 0,91
+ Chernihiv 0,01 0,00 0,95 0,05

+ Kyiv (city) 0,00 0,99 0,00 0,00
Calculated by the authors according to source: Vidkryta statystychna baza Derzhavnoi sluzhby statystyky Ukrainy

Table 2
The matrix of belonging degree of spatial concentration of innovative constituent to four clusters

Number of a cluster Administrative-
territorial units

Number of a cluster
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

+ Vinnytsia 0,07 0,03 0,84 0,06
+ Volyn 0,04 0,02 0,13 0,81
+ Dnipropetrovsk 0,03 0,02 0,12 0,82
+ Donetsk 0,06 0,05 0,17 0,72

+ Zhytomyr 0,09 0,04 0,72 0,15
+ Zakarpattia 0,16 0,15 0,28 0,41

+ Zaporizhzhia 0,19 0,71 0,07 0,03
+ Ivano-Frankivsk 0,42 0,24 0,24 0,10

+ Kyiv 0,07 0,04 0,44 0,45
+ Kirovohrad 0,61 0,25 0,10 0,04

+ Luhansk 0,09 0,07 0,21 0,62
+ Lviv 0,42 0,15 0,36 0,08
+ Mykolaiv 0,50 0,29 0,15 0,07

+ Odesa 0,21 0,08 0,59 0,11
+ Poltava 0,30 0,22 0,37 0,11

+ Rivne 0,03 0,02 0,13 0,82
+ Sumy 0,25 0,43 0,18 0,14

+ Ternopil 0,29 0,28 0,24 0,19
+ Kharkiv 0,30 0,55 0,10 0,05
+ Kherson 0,24 0,64 0,08 0,04

+ Khmelnytskyi 0,05 0,02 0,82 0,10
+ Cherkasy 0,71 0,13 0,13 0,03
+ Chernivtsi 0,72 0,11 0,13 0,04

+ Chernihiv 0,12 0,05 0,73 0,11
+ Kyiv (city) 0,42 0,40 0,13 0,05

Calculated by the authors according to source: Vidkryta statystychna baza Derzhavnoi sluzhby statystyky Ukrainy



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Otherwise, a cluster will lose its reproductive ability, 
that is, creative environment acts as a cluster creation 
core. Taking into account the achieved results, 
Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv regions, and Kyiv 
can become such centres in Ukraine. This fact gives the 
opportunity to talk about the possibility of the creation 
of five intellectually-innovative clusters capable of 
concentrating innovatively active industrial enterprises 
around themselves.

Today, the most dynamic innovative development 
of industrial potential is observed in Lviv, Kharkiv 
regions and Kyiv with high indexes of development of 
both intellectual and innovative components. The most 
negative situation is observed in the Odesa region that 
proves the necessity to establish cooperation between 
scientific institutions, academic establishments, and 
business entities.

The emergence of similar contradictions in other 
administrative-territorial units points to the necessity of 
involving the state to act as an activator of the innovative 
process and as a regulator of establishing collaboration.

4. Formation of conceptual principles  
of intellectually-innovative industrial  
clusters creation

We believe that, first of all, it is necessary to adopt 
the Conception of cluster policy in order to do 
systematization of clusterization processes in Ukraine. 
It should contain not only aims, tasks, priorities, and 
directions but also foresee the introduction of pilot 
projects of implementation of the actions of cluster 
policy on both state and regional levels. For this purpose, 
the state, first of all, should work out the program of pilot 
clusters on the central level to list territorial clusters (on 
competitive principles), which are the most significant 
for the state. Taking into account the necessity of 
technological development of industrial potential, 
innovative industrial clusters must be organized by the 
following types of industrial activity: production of 

computers, electronic and optical products; production 
of electric equipment; production of chemicals and 
chemical products; production of basic pharmaceutical 
products and medication.

In order to make industrial production environmentally 
friendly, it is useful to introduce projects related to 
the introduction of the resource and energy saving 
technologies, and low-waste manufacturing plants.

According to S. Y. Glazev, the development of 
microelectronics, biotechnologies, genic engineering, 
robot technology, nano- and picotechnologies, systems 
of artificial intelligence, as well as systems of high-speed 
transportation, and space exploration will promote the 
development of higher technological structures in the 
national economy (1990).

A set of certain actions should become inseparable as 
to the state support of industrial potential development 
on a cluster basis. They should include stimulation of 
participation of large enterprises in clusters structure, 
granting some tax deductions (taking into account the 
assessment of the productive and innovative potential 
of territorial clusters), providing target-oriented grants 
to local budgets (under the condition of co-financing of 
clusters from regional budgets) and others.

We should note that basic forms of stimulation of 
small innovative enterprises including cluster industrial 
systems were developed long ago in the world practice 
(Figure 1).

Alongside scientific research and educational 
establishments and organizations, intellectual and 
innovative clusters must include such participants:
 enterprises and organizations that take a direct part 

in production and distribution of the ready-made goods 
or services, suppliers of goods or services;
 enterprises and organizations that compose 

infrastructure of production and distribution of the 
ready-made goods or services;
 organizations of market infrastructure (auditing, 

consulting, crediting, insurance and lease services, 
logistic, trade, business with real property);

Table 3
Qualitative structure of clusters of the spatial collaboration of intellectual  
and innovative constituents of the industrial potential

Cluster
Low Average High Very high

Constituents

Intellectual 
constituent

Vinnytsia, Volyn, Donetsk, 
Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Ivano-
Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, 
Luhansk, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, 
Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, 
Chernihiv regions

Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, 
Sumy, Chernivtsi regions

Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, 
Odesa, Kharkiv regions

The city of Kyiv

Innovative 
constituent

Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Odesa, 
Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv 
regions

Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, 
Donetsk, Zakarpattia, 
Kyiv, Luhansk, Rivne 
regions

Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, 
Kharkiv, Kherson regions

Ivano-Frankivsk , Kirovohrad, 
Lviv, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, 
Cherkasy, Chernivtsi regions, 
and the city of Kyiv

Source: composed by the authors



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 organizations of innovative infrastructure 
(business-incubators, techno parks, industrial parks, 
regional centres of innovative development);
 organizations to support the development of small 

and middle business infrastructure (venture funds; 
centres for technology transfer; centres and agencies 
for entrepreneurship growth, regional development, 
attracting investments; native financial institutions; 
agencies for commodities export support; funds of 

entrepreneurship support; funds of crediting assistance, 
investment funds, closed stock investment funds which 
attract investments for small and middle business 
entities, etc.).

The form “Cluster Passport” is offered to use in order 
to institutionalize the activity of cluster creation, which 
should contain the following information: the name of 
the cluster; initiators of the project of cluster creation; 
regulatory assurance of cluster activity (standards 

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF CLUSTERS INTRODUCTION

USA: 
establishing a commission of 
clusters creation;
analytical work in scientific and 
educational centres;
direct financing – subsidies, loans.

CANADA:
state financial support of clusters, 
specifically allocation of initial 
capital and attraction of private 
companies’ facilities.

 
FRANCE:

granting of subsidies, and loans 
that reach 50% of expenditures for 
the creation of new products and 
technologies.

ITALY:
assistance to industrial districts 
through discounts on export, 
warranty coverage, the attraction 
of investors, consulting.

GERMANY:
priority is given to the introduction 
of cutting-edge technologies 
through consolidation of industry 
and scientific centres efforts.

SWITZERLAND:
grant of loans, including interest-
free ones; creation of funds of 
innovations introduction.

FINLAND:
creation of cluster chains, i.e. 
cooperation of the private sector, 
state, trade and professional 
associations, research and 
academic establishments in the 
innovative process. 

AUSTRIA:
development and support of the 
Program of clusterization on the 
basis of: a system of innovations 
stimulation; productivity growth; 
employment growth.

GREAT BRITAIN:
creation of funds which introduce 
innovations with the calculation of 
possible commercial risk.

NETHERLANDS:
free of charge office work conduct 
on the requests of individual 
inventors, free services of patent 
proxies, exempt from duties
payment.

JAPAN:
creation of a national network of 
centres for industrial technologies 
introduction on the basis of 
universities, supporting the 
sphere of education, university 
science, and venture business.

INDIA:
target-oriented grants on scientific 
research developments in the 
innovative field and industry. 

NATIONAL ACTIONS OF SUPPORT OF CLUSTERS ORGANIZATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

Creation of the specialized organization of cluster development that provides coordination of its 
participants, which can be created in different legal forms.

Performing the cluster structure analysis, production chain of added value, carried out by the main 
participants of the cluster, determination of barriers for cluster development.

Working out a strategy of cluster development and the plan of actions as to their implementation that 
includes setting up of cluster projects and actions, aimed at the organization of favourable conditions 
for cluster development.

Establishing effective informative cooperation between participants of the cluster.

Figure 1. Introduction of the world practice of stimulation of industrial potential development on a cluster basis

Source: summarized by the authors (Kastels & Khimanen, 2006; Khomych, 2007; Chykarenko & Mamatova, 2011)



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and regulations); definition of cluster missions and 
its visions (cluster conception); cluster participants 
(legal/natural entities) and their voluntarily obligations; 
management staff of the cluster (council or core of the 
cluster); expected results of the activity (short-term and 
long-term); target (address) groups that “experience” the 
results of cluster activity; stages of cluster creation (name 
of the stage, responsibility, terms of implementation); 
necessary resources (material, technical, financial, 
human, intellectual, and others); potential risks (internal 
and external) and ways of their prevention (overcoming 
or reduction of influence); cluster stakeholders (to 
carry out external control and represent interests of the 
cluster on all levels) (Sharov & Chykarenko, 2012). 
We recommend adding the following blocks: project 
innovativeness (product, technological or market) 
and relevance to the strategic priorities of economic 
development (of states, regions, etc.).

It is necessary to note that the creation of innovative 
clusters can also take place by the cost of state and local 
budgets. In this case, financial mechanism of state support 
of implementation of wide range of cluster projects 
must be quite flexible and involve several directions, for 
example: development of transportation, energy, and 
engineering infrastructure; development of housing 
and social infrastructure, including of material and 
technical base for health protection, culture and sport; 
development of innovative and educational infrastructure, 
implementation of works and projects in the field of 
research and developments, carrying out innovative 
activity, training and upgrading employees’ qualification; 
taking other actions in order to increase competitiveness 
of not only the organizations-participants of a cluster but 
also the territory of cluster location, and to rise the life 
quality of territorial communities.

5. Conclusions
Summarizing the achieved results, we state the 

following:
1. Taking into account foreign experience, establishing 

collaboration between a research sphere and business 
structures is an essential stimulator for innovative 
development of the industrial potential. The leading 
role in a cluster network belongs to research institutions 
and educational establishments, which role is to develop 
and invent an innovative product that meets market 
requirements and priorities of the economic policy of 
the state.

2. Keeping in mind the results of administrative-
territorial units’ clusterization in Ukraine, we offer 
to distinguish five intellectually-innovative clusters 
by the indexes of intellectual (centres for knowledge 
resources) and innovative constituents’ development 
(the economic basis of a cluster) with cluster 
formation centres in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, 
Odesa, and Kharkiv regions. Creation of intellectually-
innovative industrial clusters will assist the effective 
use of knowledge, the increase of intellectual labour 
efficiency, and application of its results for the 
transition of industrial potential onto the innovative 
development basis.

3. Considerable spatial asymmetry on the levels 
of development of intellectual and innovative 
constituents underlines the necessity of involving 
the state as a regulator and stimulator for establishing 
partnership relations, as well as an activator of 
innovative processes in the state. Provision of state 
support for pilot projects realization aimed at hi-tech 
productions development will allow increasing the 
competitiveness of the national industrial potential 
and national economy in particular.

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