1 Cluster policy and the supporting organizations for transnational clusters promoting- Romanian initiatives

Cooperation Programme, SEE AF /A/235/4.2/X, 2009-2011. We thank for the kind support offered by the Lead Partner, the Region of Veneto, by the representative of Informest and also for the fruitfull collaboration with all Project Partners. In some european areas there are thousands of active companies with quite similar profiles, but the information about the potential for cooperation among the countries in the area is scarce because of the lack of visibility of SME-s, in general, and of transnational connections between companies and the supporting organizations, in particular. To overcome the current situation which is characterized by this lack of an exchange of information among the european zones on the potential for antreprenorial cooperation, is necessary to have a common european concept and an active implication of the appropiate supporting organizations. On the basis of a context analisys our paper will try to highlighte the need for the following: • Stimulation of productive capacities of companies in order to create cluster networks in the strategic economic sectors, meant to improve the actual integration o