URBAN-ORIENTED INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES TERRITORIES

The spatial nature of innovation activity in the modern USA is determined by urban orientation territorial forms this and depends on complex impact both regional factors effects arising transregional systems, which are defined author as innovative systems agglomerations United States central object study. Comprehensive comparative analysis differences terms indicators integrated index development within country’s metropolitan statistical areas 2001—2020 revealed heterogeneity centre-peripheral innovation. that caused territories States, based universal influence three urban-oriented placement elements processes activity, most important are, respectively, companies associated flow knowledge technologies, empirically confirmed.