- Activity strategy
- Common supply opportunities
- Easier and cheaper access to specialised information
- Easier entry into other markets: common marketing and sales
- Possibility to perform large-scale orders and participate in procurement tenders
- Better conditions for innovations
- Competition in domestic and international markets – cluster enterprises show better competitive ability
- Qualified labour (professional training and qualification improvement institutions are rather interested in co-operating with a group of business enterprises and deferring to collective needs and wishes of enterprises)
Clusters most of all are needed by small and medium-sized business enterprises so that to have conditions to compete in the field of their excellence.