Scientific Bases of Spatial Development of Innovative Activity in the Territory of Russia

The purpose of the study is to identify the Russian territories prepared to achieve a breakthrough in the field of innovation. The relevance is due to the declared leadership of the country in a number of documents and Federal programs aimed at accelerating the development of innovative economy. Usually, readiness for innovation is associated with the development of development institutions and service infrastructure of innovation. In this area, numerous borrowings were made and the real practice of large-scale Federal support for innovation centers in the way of expensive Greenfield ideology (Skolkovo, Innopolis) was implemented. However, to date, the domestic economy is not innovative. The problems of this lie in the fact that the most important questions have not been widely raised about how innovation differs from traditional scientific and technical activities, what is significant characteristic of the territory of the world-famous innovation centers in the economy of the West; in what urban conditions is the active development of innovation and whether it can provide, for example, science cities or innograd. These issues are relevant not only in the research area or for public education, but also fundamentally important for the development of regions seeking to actualize the innovative potential of specific territories. The study on the basis of extensive foreign experience (USA, Europe, Japan) examines the features of the territories characterized by the effective development of scientific and innovative activity. The hierarchy of the spatial organization of scientific and innovative activity is substantiated: Technopark-Technopolis - region of science. Given the typological characteristics of foreign science parks and regions of science. The list of Russian agglomerations that can be attributed to the regions of science is determined.