Aspects of the functioning of industrial clusters as network economic systems

Today clusters are a popular concept in economic circles. However, these integrated structures are still poorly studied from a scientific point of view. Unresolved problems include the issues of technology functioning, improving the efficiency of these integrated structures in industry, the use of modern management technologies in these structures. The special need for research is due to the need to obtain a more complete picture of the internal processes in innovative associations and modern management technologies in industry. The effects arising in networked integrated economic structures need to be studied, since they are the result of a causal relationship between the participants in such structures. The object of attention of the authors are industrial clusters. The subject of research is the relations arising in the process of functioning of industrial clusters. The research was based on materials about clusters in the regions of the Russian Federation and the world. Objective: to identify the features of communication of participants in industrial clusters. The study focuses on the analysis of the structural effect arising in the process of communication of participants in industrial clusters. The result of the work is to obtain new knowledge about the technology of functioning of industrial clusters, which is of theoretical and practical importance for the management of these economic systems. Keywords— industrial cluster; structural effect; functioning technology; economic systems; interaction mechanism.