Martynyak I. Development of Infrastructure of Regional Cluster Initiatives Support

The object of study: the processes of development of regional cluster initiatives in the economy of Western Region of Ukraine. Objective: developing the theoretical and methodological and applied principles of functioning and development of infrastructure forming and support regional cluster initiatives to implement the strategy of cluster development in the regional economy. Methods: analysis and synthesis, comparisons and analogies, economic and statistical analysis, system-structural and cluster analysis, heuristic modeling. Novelty: first proposed a conceptual model for evaluating the impact of infrastructure on the development of regional and inter-regional cluster initiatives through an integrated combination of economic and geographic, political and economic and socio-cultural factors, improved concept of cluster infrastructure by identifying key factors that contribute to its genesis in the early stages cluster formation as infrastructure to support regional cluster initiatives, classification of types of regional market infrastructure performance criterion effectiveness of participating initiator of creation, method of evaluation preparedness infrastructure regional cluster initiatives to promote regional or inter-cluster at certain stages of the life cycle. Scope: in the activities of the Main Department of Economy of Ternopil Regional State Administration, State Budget Institution «Ternopil Regional Center for Investment and Development".