What is agglomeration in terms of economy

financial circuits and technological solutions of modern information world changing so fast that keep track of the economic value of the variable familiar words, meanings and concepts is impossible.Let's say that this agglomeration?It would seem that much easier: the country or region is a major industrial center, around which the production and processing chain, local labor markets, and financial capital, research and training centers.

However ... this picture is characteristic of the 30-70-ies, when the actual question was about the formation of industrial agglomerations.But the fact of the matter is that the market has ceased to be an exclusively industrial.Factories surrender completely at the mercy of financial instruments - loans, deposits, derivatives.And in place of conventional technologies comes the information and control of the information flow.Now to answer the question of what the agglomeration, it is more than difficult.Especially if we take into account the administrative domestic experience of constructing artificial agglomerations.

Russian motivation is different from the Western European instead of economic efficiency in the first place put forward ease bureaucratic management.Cities and towns, respectively, "attached" to the basic industrial center, which determines the prospects of any subordinate "satellites".Under these conditions, the terms of the economy have not acted.The main thing was to build a model of centripetal management of all the resources provided.Of course, not to mention control, which simply "rolls over".

Dictionary of Economics, published "Infra" in 1999, gives the following definition: Agglomeration - a "compact arrangement, grouping communities united not only in the spatial sense, but has a developed industrial, cultural, recreational connections".In other words, a few changes, but the Soviet understanding of the term is still left.

In order to understand what the agglomeration, need to understand how to organize a modern production.So the first - no vertical, hierarchical relationships.Links only equal, horizontal, based on mutual interest.If such interest is not present, and the production bundle is not working.Second - the production cycle consists of three components: the development of ideas (innovative solution) - financial instruments - a technological solution.Thus, the answer to the question of what the agglomeration, lies in the organization of work (no production in the "classical" sense) so that in the same space, and as soon as possible, provided the best investment to create a successful new product on the market.And best of all - a new brand.

In the Russian context, saying that such an agglomeration is necessary to clarify that in the best case we should talk about inter-municipal cooperation.This is due not only to the fact that municipal and state ownership is still critical of many businesses.The case in the absence of financial and management instruments for the formation of such associations as agglomeration.Yes, and the technological and scientific base in the long run either.One company even the biggest - it's not a reason to unite ... We need a conceptual project as a project of the Ruhr area and in Silicon Valley, and then the result will be.And in an order as we love it, it will not work ....