CLUSTER POLICY RELEVANCE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The financial perspective 2014-2020 attaches a great importance to supporting SMEs as a factor in industrial competitiveness and economic growth. The importance of an enabling environment for business and entrepreneurship, particularly for SMEs is complemented by the need to improve the impact of the economic-financial crisis from Europe, since disparities of economic development and structural economic differences still persist. In this context, the implementing clusters support policies became a priority for the European industrial policy. In addition, the Europe 2020 Strategy specifically stipulates the importance of clusters for business, especially for SME. Our paper is focusing on the European framework and the efforts made by Romania for cluster promotion as a new organization of the industrial activity.