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This article is devoted to assessing the role of innovation clusters in enhancing innovation activities of the state. At the present economic development stage, innovation clusters can be considered as one of the main elements of the innovation system since the strategic task of their functioning is to develop and produce innovations. The innovative potential is one of the elements of the country's competitiveness, the innovative development level of which is important in the functioning of the global economy. Based on this, it should be noted that innovation clusters are an effective tool for increasing the competitiveness level of the Russian Federation. The main indicator characterizing the importance of the functioning of innovative clusters for the development of an innovative environment are indicators of their production volume, the share of the volume of products made by innovative clusters in the total production of innovative goods and services. In this regard, in order to consider the role of innovative clusters in the development of an innovative environment, the work analyzed indicators such as the dynamics of the production volume of innovative clusters, the number of high-performance jobs in innovative clusters, the share of production of innovative clusters in the total volume of innovative products of other enterprises, and organizations.
The article considers an industrial cluster entity as an innovative platform for a national innovation system development; emphasizes the importance of creating an innovative industrial territorial cluster; analyzes its role in the sustainable regional economic development; emphasizes the necessity to adapt Federal State Programs to the specifics of the regional level in order to effectively plan and develop innovative cluster formations.
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