Development of Regional IT Clusters in Conditions of Permanent Socio-Economic Threats

This paper is concerned with analyzing the development of regional it clusters in conditions of permanent socio-economic threats. In our example, the impact of the war on the development of Lviv and Polish IT clusters. Research topic novelty consists in researching the possibilities of restoring a high level of orderliness and stability under the condition of transformation of the used adaptive mechanisms, by expanding regional IT clusters, which were located in the border regions into cross-border formations: cross-border clusters. The results showed positive effects from the transformation of regional border clusters into a cross-border cluster for both participants, despite the fact that they develop along different trajectories.