Improving the Cluster Landscape of the Region as a Factor of Ensuring Economic Security

The urgency of searching for the optimal format of regional clusters is determined by trends in economic globalization and increasing threats to economic security. The research subject of this article is the construction of scientific and production clusters, focused on ensuring a high level of economic security for both participating organizations and the region with a projection on the national economy as a whole. The purpose of the work is to propose a model of cluster organization of the regional economy that meets the challenges of ensuring economic security. Based on the analysis of existing types of clusters, it has been established that innovative, industrial and other clusters should not function in isolation from each other in order to ensure a full cycle of development and implementation of new types of products. It is shown that, in relation to Russian conditions, economic security cannot be ensured only by the sustainable economic growth of individual enterprises; for this, it is necessary to develop and implement strategies for their integration into scientific and industrial clusters. A model of such a cluster is presented, indicating the role of its subjects in ensuring economic security. Seven security contours of the regional economic system are characterized. The conclusion is made about the important role of the cluster organization of the regional economy in solving the problem of overcoming interregional imbalances.