THE PRIORITY DIRECTIONS OF NATIONAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT
CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
Mariana Kuzmanova
Abstract: The business environment presents a number of challenges for the modern enterprises: unfolding of crisis processes, accelerated internationalization of business, intensified competition, fast changes in consumer tastes and needs, development of knowledge economy etc. This, on its part, turns clusters into a suitable organizational body which can be used to stimulate innovation and cooperation between partners and improves their competitiveness. The implementation of the public-private partnership observes the principles of openness, transparency, free and open competition, prevention of discrimination, fairness and proportionality, which fully correspond with the key idea of establishing cluster formations in the country.
Keywords: cluster, innovation, cooperation, competitiveness.
Published:   p. 139-145
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