CASPIAN JOURNAL

MANAGEMENT AND HIGH TECHNOLOGIES

Educational clusters as a basis of increase of competitive educational institutions

Read  Educational clusters as a basis of increase of competitive educational institutions  // Caspian journal : management and high technologies. — 2009. — №3. — pp. 78-85.

Education is one of the most profitable exported services in many developed countries. They are provided within education and knowledge-creation clusters gaining their competitiveness due to a complex of factors that could be analyzed through the “diamond” model. Such analysis could be used as a basis for implementing a cluster policy to improve the competitiveness of Russian education institutions.

Key words: education and knowledge-creation cluster,competitiveness of education institutions,“diamond” model,cluster policy.