“…At the same time the analysis of the existing works about the development of industrial clusters in foreign countries (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands) [6,7,8] and in Russian regions [9,10,11,12] led to the following conclusions. They are: 1) the level of clustering in Russian industry is quite low, it significantly falls behind the analogous indicator of the European countries; 2) the national characteristics of industrial policy largely determine the direction of cluster initiatives; 3) it is impossible to create an effective development model of the cluster without the financial and economic, technical and technological, information-communication and other interactions between the participating enterprises; 4) to assess the economic effectiveness of the cluster you must take into account the peculiarities and the main indicators of the development of individual enterprises participating in the cluster [13,14].…”