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The Opportunities of Cluster Development in Borderland of Poland and the Czech Republic

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The cluster was defined according to the definition proposed by M.E. Porter as a specialized concentration of mutually competing and cooperating enterprises which gives them the ability to generate and maintain a competitive advantage. The most important element of the cluster are geographically concentrated companies from a single industry. A concentration of enterprises aggravates their mutual competition in the markets and factors of production and simultaneously produces external effects which are beneficial for them - for example, a greater influx of innovative resources and staff necessary for the smooth running of the production process or provision of services in their industry. Polish and Czech entrepreneurs operating in the border area are more and more interested in such a form of running business. To achieve the objective, the available source materials and study and secondary source documents and statistics, domestic and foreign. The research allowed to interpret it by the method of analysis, comparison and deduction.