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Advanced economy in Russia makes cluster approach a dominating vector of economic development. It plays significant role for the single innovative environment where university plays the key role. The paper tries to prove the efficiency of cluster approach in building advanced economy in the country, define the capacities of university and find out the role of regional universities in clustering of Russian economy. The article applies scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, comparison and forecasting. The author uses specific methods as theory of cluster analysis and analysis of the works of famous scientists and philosophers. The paper finds out that world markets of intellectual property and competition among universities in the area of science and education play the key role. The author outlines that synergy effect in economic development and raising of education and living standards are supposed to be reached through interaction among the participants who define socio-economic development. The article reveals the capacities of cluster approach to organizational structure of interaction among universities, business and state as an innovative form of their integration. Establishment and functioning of clusters is the most efficient and promising way of advanced economic development. The paper shows that efficiency of cluster approach in the cluster-net partnership is explained by the principle of relation that results in significant synergy effects. The author specifies the role and place of university in clustering economy. The idea is based on the fact that promising strategy of clustering economy is seen as a strategy where regional universities involved in development and transfer of new technologies play the key role. These universities are seen as the advantage of regional strategic development. The history of cluster-network partnership is considered on example of West Siberian and Far-Eastern Federal Districts.