CONCEPTUAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL DELINEATION OF CLUSTERING AND ITS PLACE WITHIN MODERN APPROACHES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The article examines the conceptual and terminological foundations of clusterisation and substantiates its place among contemporary approaches to economic development.The starting premise is that the wide diffusion of cluster rhetoric in academic research and development policy has not been accompanied by sufficient terminological unity, which creates a risk of substituting the cluster logic with adjacent categories and instruments operating through different causal