Clusters - A Strategy of Building Competitiveness of Companies of the Region in the Knowledge-based Economy

This article presents and justifies the following thesis: competitiveness of businesses depends considerably on the existence of a regional environment. As an example to prove the set thesis, the author shows the Podkarpackie Aviation Valley, the first and the biggest modern cluster in Poland, which successfully linked industry and science. In other words, this work brings up theoretical and practical aspects of cluster operations, based on the available scientific literature and the case study.