Small and medium companies can significantly increase their competitiveness by interconnecting into business clusters, business incubators or technology parks. This interconnection contributes to the growth and development of not only cluster members, but has a regional and a national dimension. Without it, there can be no significant penetration into international markets. Due to all these factors, the issue of encouraging cluster connectivity must be given much greater attention in Serbia. In addition to a simulative economic policy, the process of development of clusters must be based on adequate human potentials where the key place belongs to the management of companies in a cluster and the management of the entire cluster.

The main aim of the paper is to identify education quality focused on the need to make profound connection with the business environment with the goal of employability of graduates. The findings suggest that flow of ideas and information with focus on knowledge within the cluster serves as a powerful force for potential change in educational systems where links between practice and theory are firmly grounded and applied as the means to develop appropriate teaching and pedagogical strategies to meet the student’s needs.

Udruživanje naučno-istraživačkih institucija u doba globalizacije i svetske ekonomske krize, sve više dobija na značaju početkom XXI veka. Time bi se pojednostavila razmena informacija, novih tehnologija i usavršavanje istraživačkog kadra. Radom je obuhvaćen pristup zasnovan na klasterskom povezivanju naučnih organizacija u COST.

Koncept klastera postaje jedna od vodećih ideja razvoja nacionalnih privreda krajem XX veka. Pored značaja lokacije klastera, posebnu pažnju treba obratiti na podizanje svesti o potrebi za poboljšanjem obrazovanja i usavršavanjem kadrova koji bi činili okosnicu razvoja klastera. Zato poseban akcenat u radu je stavljen na značaju obrazovanja i potrebi za njegovim poboljšanjem radi ostvarivanja što bolje sprege klastera i jedinica obrazovnog sistema.

Change is modus operandi in modern times and it will be even more so in the future. RTC is normal having in mind that positions of stakeholders are to be disturbed, but there are numerous other reasons for RTC, but real question is how to deal with it. In this paper we will examine change and RTC happening in Regional Chamber of Economy in Nis, Serbia. These changes were inducted by transition of Serbia and its economy during past decades, but also by legislative reform in this sector. Relevant literature was investigated having in mind similirarities and differences with current examples in order to find out what is change and what is RTC, why does it happen and how to deal with it. As a conclusion,the guide - a practical modelwith check-list for change implementation and dealing with RTC was crafted. This model was developed with respect of existing change models and guides.

One of the beneficial methodologies for growing and developing a level of tourism which is sustainable and enhances the totality of local and regional environments is a multi-stakeholder approach to tourism development. In this paper, we present the case of the “Heritage trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in SE Slovenia” by which sustainable rural development takes an integrated approach in terms of start-up, implementation and development and is supported by and benefits from the notion of a core of multiple stakeholders. It is clear that: • Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills, harnessed in a bottom-up model of development, will have a huge impact on rural and agri-tourist micro-economies at a local community level. The effect in driving wealth creation and expanding employment is measurable in a very tangible and transparent way • Furthermore, multi-stakeholder tourism projects benefit the ownership transformation process by forcing public, privateand social ownership agents and enterprises to work together for common benefit. Because of the bottom up approach the measurable value at an enterprise or agency level is also more tangible and obvious • We can also see that by engaging local public agencies, the dimension of environmental planning and protection can be assured. In this way the sustainable nature of tourism and its impact on the local environment can be assessed and given due priority • At the same time, in such integrated projects, individual entrepreneurs begin to comprehend and understand the value of co-operation as well as of competition. A key feature is often the need for small-scale tourism entrepreneurs to develop a promotional mechanism to market their product or service at a wider national and international level. Individually the costs of such an activity are too great for micro-enterprises, but they are possible for groups of enterprises. This evidences how an integrated model enables participants to benefit from the totality and complexity of resources and skills held by all stakeholders Clearly the model we are referring to, as demonstrated in the Case Study utilised in this paper, has a very precise local/regional orientation. The Heritage Trail of Dolenjska & Bela krajina Case Study has a rural base and is profoundly affected by the necessity to attract tourism inputs without damaging the sensitivities of the rural environment. It also has astrong multi-st akeholder approach which in many ways illustrates the impact in EU-funded programmes of the concept of subsidiarity - aiming at seamless connectivity between EU supranational policy and funding, member state objectives in macro-economic harmonisation and stabilities and local micro-economic needs.

Gradjevinski klaster „DUNDJER“, zajedno sa većim brojem evropskih organizacija, učestvuje na evropskom projektu FP7 pod nazivom „OPEN HOUSE“ (7th FP ENV - 2009.3.1.5.2). Nova evropska metodologija u razvojnoj fazi, ima za cilj da razvije i primeni zajedničku transparentnu metodologiju, koja će dopuniti postojeće metodologije za ocenu projektovanja i izgradnje održivih gradjevina koristeći otvoreni pristup i zajedničku tehničku platformu. Metodologija se zasniva na postojećim metodama za ocenu održive gradnje (BREEAM, DGNB, LEED,...), na postojećim Evropskim standardima (ISO TC 59/SC 17, CEN/TC 350), EPBD Ditektivi i njihovim nacionalnim transpozicijama i metodologijama za ocenu održivosti gradnje na medjunarodnom, evropskom i nacionalnom nivou. U ovom radu dat je pregled kriterijuma za ocenu ekonomskog kvaliteta poslovnih zgrada.

Pet globalnih trendova obeležava savremenu svetsku ekonomiju: reciprocitet (kao glavno načelo međunarodne ekonomske integracije), integracija organizacija u svetsku privredu kroz saveze-alijanse-klastere, reinženjering, velike i radikalne promene u strukturi organizacija, ispitivanje funkcije, uloge i legitimnost menadžmenta, dominacija brzih promena u međunarodnoj, državnoj i poslovnoj politici nad internom ekonomijom. Početak 21 veka je okarakterisan pojavom partnerstva–alijansi-klastera globalnog ekonomskog fenomena, koji ne stavlja u prvi plan pravo kontrole i vlasničku dimenziju, već efekat strategijskog menadžmenta, a strukturi članova daje veći značaj od vlasničkih odnosa. Glavni cilj je pokriti sve tehnologije i tržišta koja su bitna za odredjeni proizvod-uslugu, redukovanja troškova i rizika istraživanja i razvoja novih proizvoda i procesa, izbegavanje uvozne barijere, postizanje ekonomije obima ujedinjenjem snaga u oblasti marketinga, finansija i proizvodnje. U poslednjih pet godina, broj ovakvih saveza raste po stopi od 5 % na godišnjem nivou.

Industrial clusters as an exceptional form of self organizing of industry in contemporary conditions, according to our concept of mechanism for improvement of competitiveness in industry represents one of the cranks of such a mechanism (besides the development strategy, industrial policy and quality strategy. This work paper has as a starting point considerations of the issues related to definition, establishment, location, development and role of a cluster in the process of improvement of competitiveness in industry. 

The concept of a cluster facilitator has only been recently elaborated in economic literature, whereas sources of information on cluster facilitators on the territory of Serbia are scarce. Therefore, further in the text the role and the significance of a cluster facilitator will be demonstrated through an empirical aspect of activities and operation of LEDIB Cluster House. That particular aspect implies examples of good practice of cluster facilitators from other countries cooperating with Cluster House in enhancing interaction and exchange of experience. LEDIB Program has invested significant resources in the training of the cluster facilitators and the following text represents a combination of acquired theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The most significant series of cluster facilitators training modules organized by the Cluster House was held in REG X Danish Cluster Academy, so that some of the definitions and conclusions cited in the text have been taken from the experts working at this prominent institution for the cluster development.