The Main Directions of Government Support for the Creation and Functioning of Territorial Economic Clusters in Saint-Petersburg

According to the trends of recent years, it is noticeable that there is an increase in the diversity and complexity of goods and services on the markets, along with a reduction in their life cycle, as well as permanently growing international competition. The existing high concentration of various industrial markets no longer gives companies the opportunity to achieve competitive advantages solely through production technologies. In connection with these events, companies and enterprises feel an urgent need for an effective pace of development. Based on this, it follows that recently many companies around the world are trying not only to improve their economic performance, but also to carry out their functioning in an optimal way, that is, to reduce costs along with building long-term relationships with consumers and suppliers. In order to achieve optimization and, as a result, improve their position in highly competitive markets, companies and enterprises began to unite in industrial and innovation clusters. It is important to note that the features and methods of increasing the efficiency of the functioning of territorial economic clusters in certain regions of the country, including St. Petersburg, remain insufficiently developed for their practical application. There is a terminological ambiguity and unsystematicity of most of the concepts of the studied area. At the same time, it should be stated that the existing unresolved issues of legal regulation of the specifics of state support for territorial economic clusters lead to practical problems. Currently, one of the primary tasks is the task of improving the practical implementation of methods and ways to support the development of territorial economic clusters, regulated by the provisions of the federal and regional legislation of the Russian Federation. The aim of this master's work is a comprehensive study of issues related to state support for the creation and functioning of territorial economic clusters in St. Petersburg. In connection with this goal, the following range of tasks has been defined: • to determine the essence and structure of the organization of cluster management in the Russian regions; • to reveal the forms of state support for clusters in the system of state regulation of the economy of Russian regions; • analyze the foundations of cluster policy in St. Petersburg; • to identify development programs and results of the implementation of cluster policy in St. Petersburg for 2019-2020; • to reveal the problems of public administration in relation to economic clusters in St. Petersburg (on the example of the tourist cluster of St. Petersburg); • to propose the development of ways to improve state support for the creation and functioning of territorial economic clusters in St. Petersburg.