Clusters potential of region - general questions and notions

Clusters of regional economy is a splendid basis for creation of the new forms of uniting knowledge, stimulating origin of new scientific and technical directions, and also indirect image supporting sphere of formation(education), science. Leaning on foreign experience, it is possible to say, that modern high-tech manufacture can be based only on processes of integration scientific, innovation and industrial enterprises of various types. The movement of scientific and technical progress occurs not by different enterprises, and their unions, groups, clusters and networks with horizontal, vertical and regional communications.