The paper describes the objectives, architecture of a collaborative distributed system used to analyze several economic indicators, as financial flows, goods and labor force movements, recorded at global and nationwide level. The results are used to validate the existence of economic clusters in some geographical areas or to indicate natural initiatives of clusters that have been sustained naturally by the existence of required economic conditions and factors without the direct intervention of

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... ublic agencies. The paper describes the methodology for implementing such a project. The paper extends the idea of a single data processing and acquisition node to a distributed, collaborative system.