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Page ContentCurrently, one of the most effective and promising directions in the development of a modern economy is industrial cooperation. In global business practice, industrial cooperation is mainly brought about through the creation and operation of clusters. The best practices of cluster system development show that they lend significant impetus to regional development, including increased economic activity of territories with weaker economies, as well as the development of small and medium businesses. One of the instruments of the cluster approach is the localisation of production. Does Russia have clusters? What are they? How can development be ensured? Artificially-created clusters: should they exist and what is their purpose? What is the role of small business in the development of clusters and regions? Moderator: Andrey Shubin, Executive Director of OPORA RUSSIA Speakers: Gerrit Weissenborn, Director InnovationLab GmbH Viktor Vekselberg, Co-Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation, President of the Skolkovo Foundation Victor Evtukhov, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Kalinin, President of OPORA RUSSIA Kanat Almagambetov, Director General of the Kazakhstan Supply Chain Cluster Boris Minialai, CEO of Metro Cash and Carry Rustam Minnikhanov, President of The Republic Of Tatarstan Nicolas Moore, President of Avtovaz Mikhail Pivovar, Executive Director of the Medicine and Pharmaceuticals - Innovative Projects Union, the Republic of Belarus Anastasia Prischenko, General Director of CJSC VECTOR MEDICA Aleksandr Tsybulskiy, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Shokhin, President, RSPP Aleksandr Yakovlev, Director General of ANO Cluster Development Centre of Ulyanovsk Oblast