The article dwells on the issue beset with concept, structure and principles of industrial clusters functioning. It is underscored that in modern science there is still no clear definition and classificational features of clusters. They can possess agglomerative, network, hierarchical or institutional basis. It is proved that the ground of the process aimed at industrial cluster formation lies in exchange of information concerned with requirements, technics and technology between buyers, deliverers and contiguous fields. The conducted analysis shows that the main meaningful moment in the structure of the cluster is that the central place in it is occupied by the strengthening of network relationships between the cluster members. Adducing the result of the analysis the authors of the article come to the conclusion that the industrial cluster is characterized by a number of principles and a group of factors constituting an organization of its activity and identification of clusters is carried out by the method of “expenditures-manufacturing” and by the analysis of “buyer-deliverer” chain; correlative method and graphic analysis being resorted to as well.
industrial cluster, cluster participants, exchange of information, identification of clusters, “expenditures-manufacturing” method, analysis of “buyer-deliverer” chain
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