Coastal regions in the geography of innovation activity: A comparative assessment of marine basins

Across the globe marine coasts are experiencing an outstripping growth of population and economic activity, a phenomenon known as coastalization. Most global cities industry clusters located in coastal regions acting nodes for their respective countries. This divergence is equally true national innovation systems, gravitating towards highly urbanized areas. The study designed to evaluate spatial stratification knowledge production between different basins - Azov-Black, Caspian, Baltic, Arctic, Pacific. In order level-out differences policy institutional architecture, research held single country Russian Federation. Our hypothesis suggests that domain activity influenced by urbanization coastalization, i.e. proximity core city coast. We also expect coastalization factor would be reflected intensified involvement municipalities networks. based on processing ROSRID database 66,647 projects implemented 2017-2019 geocoded using Yandex.Maps API. has shown strongest influence configuration R&D networks centers largest give further impetus neighboring municipalities. Nearly 70% across have limited or no production, except Baltic Azov-Black Sea feature performance. Overall, coast non-freezing seas positive correlation with number R&Ds executed funded. Considering topics, share marine-related typically funded regions, whereas cover broad variety topics. Research results enrich notion geography advance our understanding factors distribution within system.