POTENTIAL OF SMART SPECIALIZATION OF CLUSTERS IN

Clusters are now seen as the most effective way out of the crisis and of economic recovery and also a way to increase competitiveness. The EU clustering policy has proved effective in many countries where the process began a long time ago and is now closed. Romania is in the process of clustering, so that our country records in territorial plan a dynamic which is now changing due to the creation of new clusters. The work captures both initiatives to identify potential clusters in Romania and their fields of activity, carried out over a period of several years and the current status of existing clusters in Romania. The areas identified are different, from traditional industries of Romania, to new areas of smart specialization which the EU aims to promote mainly in the 2014-2020 in order to support the amplification of research and innovation, support of competitiveness in the world