The cluster development policy in Poland
The cluster development policy in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present assumptions and policy instruments supporting clusters in Poland on the national level. In the first part of this article, the essence of the cluster policy was explained and the role of the public factor in creating and stimulating the development of clusters was briefly presented. Next, the instruments applied within the policy supporting clusters on the national level in Poland were described. In the first place, the records of the national strategic and government documents referring to supporting clusters were presented. In the following part of the article, the ways for supporting clusters through national operational programmes and actions taken by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PAED) were presented. At the end of the article, further to the conducted reflections, conclusions and guidelines for drawing up a coherent policy for supporting clusters in Poland were presented.

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