This paper is exploding of Industrial Cluster Models for innovation and Growth. The author expressed an original opinion. First, it looks at the development of industrial clusters and examines the factors that lead to the formation of industrial clusters. Geographic concentration of firms has drawn attention of the government and related institutions for its economic effect. Competition and interconnection among firms concentrated in a region create synergies, which contribute to the growth of industry. This, I hope, will help identify the crucial features of industrial clusters. Incidentally, existing cluster theories are analyzed in order to examine the factors that influence the performance of industrial clusters. By combining the factors, categories of clusters are presented, each of which differs from others in its characteristics. At the end, a set of cluster models are formed and presented based on the analysis of cluster theories and definitions. I presented new industrial cluster models called 'dual clusters' which are formed by incorporating two sets of contrasting ideas extracted from the analysis of cluster theories and definitions. This, I hope, helps look at clusters from a different point of view and examine the performance and possibility of clusters.

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