THE CLUSTERING POTENTIAL IN TRANSYLVANIA BASED ON THE CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND REGIONAL SPECIALIZATION.

In our days clusters and cluster policies have begun to play an increasingly important role in the economic and political environment alike, being mentioned more and more often in relation to new development policies as an easy solution for the complex problems of the economy. For pointing out the "raison d'être" of these approaches, we intend to analyze the specialization and the spatial concentration of economic activities based on a very straight-forward approach for pointing out the intensifying activities of the economy both from a territorial as well as from a sectoral point of view. The topic is all the more important since much of the financial support and state aid going into the economy in the last years has been channeled in the form of financial grants given to specific structures like clusters or competitiveness poles and the tendency does not look like it is about to change. That is why in the present paper we would like to analyze the specialization of the counties in Transylvania and the concentration of the certain industries and try to find a correlation with the clusters which have emerged in the past years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]