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Regional Development Based on Introduction of Clusters

One of the most essential goals of the contemporary European Union development policy, which is supported by so-called Lisbon strategy, is to develop and strengthen a competitive knowledge-based economy. It is focused on stimulation of innovations and research activities in entrepreneurship, on establishing of close contacts between research institutes and industry, and on ensuring better financial resources for entrepreneurship, and other such matters. Experience gained in some European regions and elsewhere, whose success is mainly due to very sophisticated and new technology-based company networks, so called clusters, corroborates this. Cluster development has been defined as a goal in the strategic documents of the Republic of Croatia. In order to activate its development, numerous short-term, medium-term and long-term measures should be introduced both at the national and at the regional levels. This paper presents one of developed clusters, the Shipbuilding cluster of the Split-Dalmatian County, as one of most important development project for competitiveness increase of industry in region.

Cluster; Regional development; shipbuilding industry

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