Usilenie roli innovatsiy v sotsial'no-ekonomicheskikh preobrazovaniyakh yavlyaetsya vazhneyshey sostavlyayushchey strategii razvitiya Rossii i ee regionov. Regional'nyy uroven' priobretaet vse bol'shee znachenie dlya aktivizatsii innovatsionnykh protsessov, predostavleniya tselevoy podderzhki innovatsionnym kompaniyam i nauchnym uchrezhdeniyam. Eto ob"yasnyaetsya, s odnoy storony, prirodoy innovatsionnykh protsessov, imeyushchikh lokalizovannyy kharakter, s drugoy storony, neobkhodimost'yu ucheta differentsiatsii rossiyskikh regionov, ispol'zovaniya polozhitel'nogo vliyaniya spetsializatsii.