TERRITORIAL CLUSTER IN THE SERVICE SPHERE AND ITS FUNCTIONALS FORMATION SCHEME

Clustering is an important and objective tendency of development of organizational and economic management forms. The clusters are formed at the federal and territorial levels in branches and industries in the priority directions of social and economic development where the services sector is referred to.

The most common clusters in the service sector are described in the article – tourism-recreation, transport and logistics, and information technology cluster. The article presents the principles of territorial cluster in the service sector and gives definition to the cluster. The author considers the essence of service as an economic category from the point of view of situational, functional, and system approaches.

The formation scheme of a territorial cluster of the services sector and its classification based on types of economic activity and groups of services are presented as a result of service classification analysis according to the qualifier of the UN, the Russian qualifier of services for the population, the International classification of goods and services, and the Russian classification of products by economic activities RC 034-2014.

Specific features of a territorial cluster in the service sector are defined: it is the cluster functioning within a number of types of economic activity and including competing organizations; it is a non-institutionalized cluster, as it has not got a common control center; it is a mainly localized territorial cluster, a numerous cluster by the structure of its participants; it is an innovative cluster connected with the perspective directions of economic development; it is a long-term cluster built according to the principles of use of economic capacity of a certain territory; it is an initiative cluster created at the initiative of economic entities of a certain territory; it is the working cluster from positions of economic activity and services realization, and a potential one from positions of development of new types of economic activity; it is connected with the development of economics knowledge.

The author defines the function of the presented block diagrams and classification of a territorial cluster of the service sector as a basis for formation of development strategy of the profile professional educational services with joint participation of educational organizations, economic entities that are interested in them, governmental and public authorities.