Polityka wspierania klastrów w Unii Europejskiej
Cluster policy in the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the cluster policy pursued at the level of the European Union in the years 2006-2020. The author focused on the actions taken by the European Commission. To achieve a goal, it was necessary to analyze the literature about clusters as well as studies of a practical nature. First, the essence of the cluster policy and the selected models were presented. Next, provisions of the most important documents of the EU relating to clusters were shown. Further past actions and initiatives of the Commission to support clusters and assumptions adopted in this respect for the current programming period were presented. The analysis of the actions taken to support clusters in the Community allows to draw the conclusion that it is possible to distinguish amongst them such ones which focus on strengthening cooperation between entities and such ones which focus on the cluster management. These activities aim at providing better conditions for the creation of a bigger number of the world class bunches in the EU.

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