Development of the Strategic Spatial Planning System for Ensuring Economic Security and Stimulating Innovative Growth in the Russian Regions

The need to increase the effectiveness of the strategic spatial planning system in order to achieve Russia’s national development goals for the period up to 2036 is achieving special relevance in the context of technological sovereignty and geopolitical turbulence. The aim of the research is to develop the theoretical and methodological foundations for the functioning of an integrated system of strategic spatial planning as a driver of innovative growth and a tool for ensuring the economic security of the Russian regions. The research methodology is based on a systematic approach, methods of statistical analysis, expert assessment and spatial modeling. The analysis covers 85 subjects of the Russian Federation for the period 2023–2025. As a result, synergetic effects between the quality of spatial planning and the innovation activity of regions (correlation coefficient 0.73) are identified, a typology of regions on the effectiveness of the integration of spatial planning and innovation policy is developed, a methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the system is created. The conducted research allows identifying the role of the strategic spatial planning system in ensuring economic security and stimulating innovative growth. The author’s model of optimizing the spatial planning system to stimulate innovation is based on the principles of adaptive management, multilevel coordination and innovation orientation.

The scientific novelty consists in substantiating the concept of a strategic spatial planning system as an integrated mechanism for synchronizing territorial development with innovative processes through multilevel management of spatial transformations and clustering of territories. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of applying the developed methodological tools to improve regional policy and improve the effectiveness of public management of spatial development, including in the implementation of the current Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030 with a forecast up to 2036.

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