Clustering small and medium enterprises in the transport industry

Abstract

Small and medium-sized enterprises are exposed to many risks which could threat their existence. One of possible way, how to reduce these risk is clustering. The cluster initiative represents a set of activities aimed at improving the economic level and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises. Besides of it, cluster initiative helps organizations which interested in cooperation obtain the necessary information. The main goal of the article is identification and analysis of structure of clusters operating in Slovakia and creating the current list of clusters. Further, the article aims at closer examination of the clustering of transport companies in the cluster and other forms of cooperation in Slovakia. On the base of the fact that here does not exist an accurate list of clusters in the Slovak Republic, we decided to create it. We faced many problems which are described in the article. In spite that the list of clusters has certain restrictions we can state that it provides a general overview about the forms of cooperation in Slovakia. We discussed and depicted the structure of clusters according to different criteria in the third part of article. Particularly we focused on forms of cooperation between small and medium-sized transport enterprises.