Empirical Evidence of Development of Plastic Clusters

Abstract

The development of clusters and cluster policies is one of the sources of attaining competitive advantages of companies and regions. This contribution analyzes a sample of clusters in the plastics industry from different countries of USA, West and Central Europe and Asia, including cluster policies that generate the framework for their growth. Critical factors of cluster performance management based on results obtained from surveys and structured interviews of managers of selected plastics clusters are identified. Although these clusters exist in different parts of the world and operate in different economic and cultural conditions, there are many ideas and opinions shared by their managers introduced in this contribution.

Natural resource reserves sustainable use and inclusive resort development

“…Determining the conditions for the sale of natural resource reserves for use on the option principle value requires coordination with the requirements of economic security in the stock market of Ukraine. Methodical recommendations concerning calculation of level of economic safety of Ukraine (2013) regarding the calculation of the economic security level of Ukraine, it is determined that the economic security of the non-banking financial sector (which includes the stock market) is such a level of its development that allows to fully meet the needs of society in these financial instruments and services [16][17][18]. The indicators used to assess the level of economic security in the stock market in Ukraine include: the level of capitalization of listed companies, the percentage of GDP; the level of volatility of the index of the First Stock Trading System, the number of critical deviations (-10 percent); the share of insurance premiums of the three largest insurance companies in the total income of insurance premiums (excluding life insurance), percent.…”