În articol autorul justifică necesitatea abordării multidimensionale a clusterului regional european. Abordarea multidimensională a politicii euro-pene, îi permite autorului să conchidă că este necesară elaborarea unor clus-tere combinate, care ar valorifica, pe de o parte, tradiţiile locale, iar, pe de altă parte, tendinţele globale. În atingerea acestui scop, Comisia Europeană a lansat mai multe iniţiative prin care încurajează creşterea şi inovaţia, accen-tuînd necesitatea consolidării competitivităţii economiei europene.

The article defines the objective need for a multidimensional ap-proach to the analysis of regional cluster policy in Europe. Its role in the creation of the combined clusters, which take into account local traditions and global trends, is shown in the article. Against this background the European Commission has launched a range of initiatives to foster innovation and growth, and to strengthen the un-derlying competitiveness of the European economy. A key area of interest is the development of emerging industries and their role in driving economic dynamism. Emerging industries can be understood as “the establishment of an entirely new industrial value chain, or the radical reconfiguration of an exist-ing one, driven by a disruptive idea (or convergence of ideas), leading to turn-ing these ideas/opportunities into new products/services with higher added value”. Therefore, emerging industries can but must not always be completely “new” industrial sectors. They are new combinations of narrowly defined activities that can also comprise existing industrial sectors that are evolving into emerging industries in response to new technologies, market demands, and value chain configurations. The European economy is, however, not only facing the repercus-sions of a global and a European sovereign debt crisis. It will also need to respond to its structural weakness in terms of growth. More robust growth will make achieving macroeconomic stability much easier. And more ro-bust trend growth will be critical for the macroeconomic reforms undertak-en to result not only in much stability but also more sustainable prosperity.