Economic Transformation Impact on the Modernization of a Mineral Resource Industry Cluster

摘要

The purpose of the study is to show the economic transformation impact on solving the problems of modernization of the socio-economic sphere of the mineral resource industry cluster operating in the mining region. The object of the research is the mineral resource industry cluster as a center of interaction between state, science, education and business for the implementation of innovative scientific, technical and socio-economic projects. The subject of the article is socio-economic relations concerning nature, focused in the mineral resource industry cluster of the mining region. The problems of sustainable development and modernization of the mineral resource industry cluster of the mining region are considered in terms of the socio-ecological-economic approach methodology, taking into account the economic transformation in the cluster, which ensures the scientific novelty of the study. The scientific merit of the study is the determination of the impact of the change in the types of economy on solving the problems of modernization of the socio- economic sphere of the cluster, based on the parity of nature and the economy in the mining region. It has been shown that clustering involving the potential of a world-class regional scientific and educational center is an effective mechanism for such modernization. The practical relevance of the study lies in the fact that its results can be used to clarify, taking into account the proposed approach, the state strategy of support and development of clusters, as well as regional cluster policy.