Peculiarities of Regional Cluster Policy Monitoring

Abstract 
The conceptual and content aspects of cluster policy monitoring are considered. The key difficulties and peculiarities are marked out, which are associated with the need to take into account the multiple nature of the objects and subjects of cluster policy monitoring, the typological differences between clusters, the clusters support in the framework of various governmental programs, and the complexity of clusters and cluster policy as the objects of regulation. It is shown that there is no universal approach or idea about the organization of the monitoring of cluster policy, and the criteria used for monitoring should take into account political goals, be interconnected at the levels of subjects and objects of monitoring, and be measured according to the different time horizons. The systematization of aggregated groups of indicators most often used for monitoring cluster policy was made in the context of objects of monitoring. 
 
Keywords 
cluster policy, monitoring, evaluation, types of clusters, subject of monitoring, object of monitoring 



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