“…Cluster policy, institutional and instrumental support and development of cluster initiatives are investigated in the works of Russian scientists: Bortnik, Gokhberg, Klepach, Rudnik, Fomichev, and Shadrin (2015), Abashkin, Kutsenko, Rudnik, Sagieva, and Shadrin (2016), Gokhberg and Shadrin (2015), Achenbach (2013), Babkin (2018), Vertakova, Polozhentseva, and Khlynin (2014), Tretyak (2011), Charykova and Markova (2019), Yashin, Trifonov, and Koshelev (2016), etc. However, despite the significant exploration of the issue, a number of theoretical and methodological problems in cluster theory remain unresolved.…”