Results and prospects of developing innovation aerospace cluster in samara region

Cluster policy is increasingly the core of strategies of socio-economic and innovative development of regions. In this regard, it is important to monitor the current state of clusters, identify cluster effects, which will determine prospects for their further development more accurately. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the results of the innovation cluster of Samara region and identify prospects for its further development. For this, the authors suggest the methodical approach to evaluating economic effects of cluster functioning, conduct the data analysis. On the basis of generalizing the array of scientific and statistical data, reports of enterprises, evidence of facts of economic activity of cluster members, the authors find a number of positive effects of the innovative aerospace cluster of Samara region. The article reveals a new “corporate effect”, in which an enterprise-cluster member seeks to become a part of the cluster architecture of a higher level in order to ensure guaranteed ordering and financing of modernization programs. The article also complements scientific discussions on the synergetic effect of the cluster and the expansion of markets in other sectors due to new technologies and ideas for business. The performed SWOT-analysis suggests promising areas and activities for the development of the aerospace cluster of Samara region for high growth high-tech enterprises, spread of digital economy.