Territories and Entities with High Innovation Potential: Problems and Prospects for Development

The creation of competitive digital innovations and technologies is one of the national interests of the Russian state, therefore, today it is extremely important to stimulate their development. That is why the study of territories and entities with high innovation potential is one of the conditions for achieving the goal. The purpose of the study was to identify the main problems and prospects for the development of legal regulation of innovation clusters, special economic zones, techno parks, innovative scientific and technological centers, as well as the Innovation Center "Skolkovo". Applying the formal-legal method, as well as the method of comparative-legal analysis and systematization, the author has identified common features characteristic of such territories and entities and unites them in the system of territories and entities with high innovative potential. The main gaps and other shortcomings of legal regulation of territories and entities with high innovation potential are identified, and ways to eliminate them are proposed. In particular, it is proposed to expand the use of private legal contractual principles in the framework of cooperation between the state and subjects of innovative entrepreneurship, to legislate the grounds and conditions for the formation of clusters within the boundaries of such territories and entities, as well as to include in the criteria for assessing their effectiveness the assessment of the "contribution" of residents and participants of such territories and entities to the sustainable development of the Russian state.