INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS AS A PRIORITY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE EXPERIENCE OF FINLAND

Abstract

The subject of the study is the strategy of forming an intellectual cluster as a driver of economic regional and municipal development, using the example of Tampere (Finland). The goal is to analyze the organizational and managerial approaches to the implementation of strategic initiatives of public authorities, businesses and leading stakeholders in the cluster initiative. Methodology. The methodological basis of the work was made up of the concepts of leading domestic and foreign economists implementing neoclassical and institutional approaches to analyzing the economy of innovation and regional development. Results. It was revealed that today strategic priorities of the state economic policy should be concentrated in the sphere of advanced innovative technologies, diversification of the economy and cooperation of business on the basis of intellectual technologies. The state task is to organize cooperation and partnership between universities and the industry in the field of R & D, which proves the cooperation of the universities of Tampere and the Finnish, world business. The Finnish practice proves that intellectual research and the education system are the basis of an innovative economy, have advanced knowledge and skills that stimulate the attraction of investments. Conclusions. The conditions created in Finland contribute to the sustainable growth of the national economy and increase its competitiveness. Institutional conditions for stimulating innovation are stimulating factors of national well-being, in contrast to natural resource factors. The business-incubator "New Factory" located in Tampere is the winner in the competition "European Innovations", the leading European start-up accelerator and the laboratory for creating demo projects. Multifaceted diversified activity to stimulate innovation, high level of education and cooperation of business with universities promoted the growth of the region's competitiveness. The Tampere Innovation Cluster formed is 60,000 employees, 17.9 billion euros of annual turnover, with the total number of the Tampere region 499 thousand people created 31,000 places to do business. The region accounts for 15% of the national budget.