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Cluster Policy in the Russian Federation: a Сase Study of Industrial Clusters irina roDionova, tatiana kreJDenko, Cezary mąDry QUAESTIONES GEOGRAPHICAE 37(2) • 2018 CLUSTER POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A СASE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS IRINA RODIONOVA1, TATIANA KREJDENKO1, Cezary mąDry2 1Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Manuscript received: January 25, 2018 Revised version: March 11, 2018 roDionowa i., kreJDenko t., mąDry C., 2018. Cluster policy in the Russian Federation: A case study of industrial clus- ters. Quaestiones Geographicae 37(2), Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań, pp. 61–75. 3 tables, 3 figs. ABSTRACT: The article describes cluster policy in the Russian Federation regarding industrial clusters. In the first part, the authors explain the definitions of basic concepts related to clusters that are used in Russia, the features of cluster policy in the light of European experiences, and bring closer the Russian literature on the subject. In the second part, they distinguish and describe five stages of cluster policy in Russia. In the third part, they present basic quantitative data describing clusters in Russia, including their spatial diversification, the number of entities creating clusters, em- ployment, etc. A particular role of the state in creating clusters and subsequent cluster policy programs is described, paying attention to their low efficiency. KEY WORDS: Russia, clusters, industrial clusters, clustering, cluster policy, regions of the Russian Federation, federal districts of the Russian Federation Corresponding author: Cezary Mądry, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, ul. B. Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland, e-mail: [email protected] Introduction beginning it should be noted that the article only deals with industrial clusters and the cluster pol- The example of many countries shows that icy concerning them1. An accompanying term the shaping and development of clusters is an is clustering (clustering processes), i.e. activities effective instrument not only in increasing the aimed at creating clusters, which can be defined efficiency of the activities of the companies with- as a set of actions undertaken by the state and so- in the cluster but also of the regional policy. In cial units in order to associate various enterpris- Russian literature, a cluster is understood as a es in clusters to establish network collaboration group of mutually related companies producing between them. This definition particularly relates ready-made and complementary products and to the Russian Federation economy, because in specialised services concentrated in a certain re- this country the development of clusters is im- gion (Gorkin 2013). Yet, as the same author notes, possible without state participation. The spatial in recent years this notion has been increasingly structure of Russia’s economy has been shaped used to mark territorial complexes of any special- isation and different hierarchical levels (hence 1 Whenever the term ‘cluster’ is used in the article, it is such terms as ‘industrial cluster’, ‘intellectual understood as an industrial cluster, unless it is other- cluster’, ‘harbour cluster’, etc.). Therefore, at the wise indicated. © 2018 Author(s) This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license doi: 10.2478/ quageo-2018-0021 ISSN 0137-477X, eISSN 2081-6383 62 IRINA RODIONOVA, TATIANA Krejdenko, CEZARY MąDRY for many decades. Intensive industrialisation in cluster policy in Russia and distinguishing its and central planning in the Soviet times shaped stages; (3) quantitative characteristics of industri- Territorial and Production Complexes. However, al clusters operating in Russia. The spatial range this took place in the absence of a free market, and includes the Russian Federation in the adminis- sometimes without taking into account the needs trative division of the first level (entities of the of local communities (Maryański 1987). After the Russian Federation) or the federal districts3. The collapse of the USSR, market mechanisms and distinguished phases go back to the times of the the establishment of companies or their groups in existence of the Soviet Union, while the statistical the free market conditions were rather unknown data refer mainly to the state at the end of 2017 and extremely poorly developed. This justified (for selected data for 2008–2017). the state aid in the creation and development of clusters, at the level of both federal and region- al authorities. For these reasons, cluster policy Literature review began to develop in Russia. This term (cluster policy) is understood as a complex of activities The concept of a cluster was introduced and focusing on: 1) the formation of conditions (in- developed in literature by Porter (1990, 2001). cluding the business environment, competition Research was also conducted by Saxenian (1994), and infrastructure development) for the devel- Gordon, McCann (2000), Swann (1998), Power opment of clusters; 2) support for cluster initia- (2011), and others. Publishing the concept of tives2. The implementation of cluster policy is clusters coincided with the fall of the communist focused on the following tasks: 1) promoting the system in Central and Eastern Europe, which competitiveness of enterprises and organisations intensified the disintegration processes in these which are part of territorial clusters; 2) develop- countries, including production processes. It was ment of innovative, industrial, transport, energy, only the strengthening of market mechanisms residential and social infrastructure of territorial and the revival of economies of these coun- clusters; 3) assistance in attracting investment to tries that resulted in an abundance of publica- a cluster territory; 4) development of a system of tions regarding the appearance of clusters and professional and continuing education; 5) devel- cluster initiatives. Examples include works by opment of small and medium-sized enterprises; Brodzicki, Kuczewska (2012); Dutkowski (2005); 6) creation, development and replication of ef- Stryjakiewicz, Dyba (2014). Some authors fo- fective mechanisms of the public-private part- cused their research on creative and innovative nership; 7) development of international scien- clusters, which corresponded to a popular reflec- tific, technical and production cooperation (Karta tion on the knowledge-based economy. One can klasterov Rosii…). mention here research by Kovacs et al. (2011); Clustering processes and cluster policy exist Szultka (2012); Środa-Murawska, Szymańska in economies of various types and usually testify to the higher levels of economic and organisa- 3 Entities of the Russian Federation (in other words: tional development of the country. However, na- federal entities of Russia or entities of the Federation) tional economic determinants and traditions can are constitutional units of the administrative division of Russia. The constitution lists the following entities: give these processes specific features, hence the republics, countries, regions, cities of federal impor- question of how clustering works in the territory tance, autonomous regions, autonomous districts. of the Russian Federation. Therefore, the purpose These entities have their own power structures: ad- of this article is: (1) identification of the charac- ministration head, parliament, constitutional court, teristic features of cluster policy concerning in- two representatives in the Federation Council (the upper house of the Russian parliament). This division dustrial clusters in Russia (especially compared in literature is commonly called the regional division to European models); (2) discussion of changes of Russia. The federal districts group the Federation’s entities and have no power in the constitution of the Russian Federation. Therefore, they do not constitute 2 Cluster initiatives are the joint organised efforts of the administrative division of the country. They were firms, government, educational and research organ- established by the decree of the President of Russia in isations aimed at increasing the growth and competi- May 2000. They are headed by governors elected who tiveness of a particular cluster (Karta klasterov Rosii…). report directly to the President. CLUSTER POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A СASE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS 63 (2013); Bialic-Davendra et al. (2013, 2014, 2016); theoretical aspects of creating and developing Markova (2014). The flow of knowledge with- clusters and cluster initiatives; 2) a problem of in clusters was studied, among others, by Dyba evaluating efficiency of a cluster and particular (2016a, 2016b, 2017). economic entities being its part; 3) mechanisms Despite regression of industrial geography in and instruments of the state’s support of the clus- Russia, an increased number of scientific articles ter entities. on the history of formation and the specificity of In his works, Kucenko (2012a, 2012b) consid- the development of clusters and cluster initiatives ers the main directions of the state’s cluster pol- in the RF regions have been observed in recent icy. He takes up the following issues: a combi- years. In addition to publications of a text-book nation of evolutionary and constructive trends nature (e.g. Selischeva 2016; Gorlov 2013), there in creating clusters, shaping the state’s cluster have been works by scholars from the Higher
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