The theoretical-methodological bases of cluster development of the Volgograd region

Cyclic development of the world's economies, in which the growth and maturity are followed by stagnation and crisis phenomena, dictates scientists and practitioners need for new effective approaches and methods to stimulate growth points. One of such methods to stimulate socio-economic development of individual regions and countries became the cluster approach, the founder of which is to M. Porter. In the article the theoretical-methodological bases of cluster development of the Volgograd region.