TY - JOUR T1 - Functioning of the Agro-Industrial Cluster in Terms of Development of Innovative-Investment Activity AU - Valentina Aleksandrovna, Kundius AU - Irina Valerievna, Kovaleva AU - Larisa Anatolyevna, Semina AU - Olga Yuryevna, Voronkova AU - Inna Nikolaevna, Sannikova AU - Tatyana Valentinovna, Bobrovska JO - International Business Management VL - 11 IS - 12 SP - 2097 EP - 2103 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2017.2097.2103 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2017.2097.2103 KW - Investments KW -cluster KW -problems KW -prospects KW -innovation KW -principles AB - In conditions of transformation of Russia’s economy, since, the beginning of reforms, agricultural organizations have appeared without the traditional State support, State regulation of prices for resources monopoly suppliers. The result of this economy was the inability to exercise reproductive processes. As a result, there has been a decrease in the quality of agriculture agri-food products which endpoint loses its competitive position. In turn, larger organizations processing agribusiness experience instability or failure of raw material base, losing competitiveness in the food market. Feeling a lack of qualitative raw material, they are contemplating the creation of integrated units in the form of clusters in order to combine the production of raw materials and finished products, to explore possibilities of investing in production processes. When you create such formations, a number of fundamental approaches and directions of agro-industrial cooperation and integration. ER -