“…At the same time, forecasting such processes, if they do not imply the possibility of significant transformations of the socio-economic space, cannot be considered as the leading methodology of scientific and technological progress. This explains the total spread of ideas describing the emergence of innovative forms of spatial formations that can radically change the existing relative order of territorial systems' functioning (Nefedova & Treivish, 2003;Kunth & Thorez, 2005;Lenz, Meyer, Miggelbrink, & Waack, 2007;Shuper, 2011;Druzhinin et al, 2017;Silva, 2018;Yushkova, Gushchina, Gaponenko, Dontsov, & Gushchin, 2019). The unconditional acceptance by territorial systems of all the diversity of spatial innovations and the reliance solely on the existing potential of the regions seem to be too idealistic.…”