Urbooriented Development of the National Innovative System in the US Metro Areas

Abstract

The socio-economic heterogeneity of spatial development is reflected in modern agglomeration processes, reflecting, first of all, the concentration and localization of innovative activity of elements of innovation systems of the national, regional and transregional levels associated with the reproduction process of the innovation economy. In the United States of America, a  country  that  occupies  a  leading  position,  both  in  terms  of  innovative  development  and the  process  of  urbanization,  there  is  undoubtedly  a  close  relationship  and  interaction  of innovatively active elements and economic agents with the structures that form the country’s metropolitan areas. Within the framework of this interaction, carried out under the influence of agglomeration effects in the space of post-industrial agglomerations of the United States, the urban-oriented development of the national innovation system is actively carried out, which  is  empirically  confirmed  in  the  framework  of  the  study.  The  revealed  correlation and indicative relationship between the noted phenomena made it possible to substantiate a number of specific features of the American metropolitan areas as geospatial conglomerates of innovative activity at the transregional level.