European experience and ukrainian realities of information support to the processes of clustering in economic

Abstract

The paper researches the state of economy clustering in the countries of the European Union. There are considered the legal and regulatory frameworks as well as informational regulations of the clustering processes in the European community. There is substantiated the urgency of the clustering issues along with the pre- eminence, the cluster participants are able to take advantage of. There is provided insight into the main EU organizations, indulged into the issues of clustering development. The Ukrainian experience in developing cluster initiatives as well as the state of their information support is analyzed. There are determined the factors, which negatively influence the information support to clustering processes in Ukraine. With the aim of improving the information support to clustering processes there are suggested measures, which include the improvement of legal and regulatory frameworks and information support to cluster economics.