Research paper is devoted to the issue -instruments of development of cluster policy: stages, models, international practice. The purpose of this paper is researching aspects of the development of cluster initiatives of territorial economic systems and government management of cluster policy to increase the competitiveness of territories. In this paper theoretical and empirical research methods are used, e.g. literature review and the survey of industrial clusters representatives, arrangement

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... economic objects. The findings suggest that analysis of industry directions in the international practice of clustering leads to the conclusion that the national characteristics of the existing cluster policy determine the direction of cluster initiatives and cluster strategic alternatives depending on national conditions and the adopted cluster concept.