ABSTRACT
The article discusses the innovative business of the business in the regions including, taking into account the influence of the Pandemic Cowid-19. The purpose of the article was to study the degree of innovative business development, taking into account the impact of the pandemic. The tasks were solved: it was proved that innovative development is an important factor contributing to the growth of the country's competitiveness in the world arena;the conditions for the formation of the competencies of an “innovative person” were considered, as well as modern and relevant types of innovations, among which incremental, disruptive, sustainable and radical innovations are presented. The works of researcher on the innovative developments issues were studied. The position of Russia is shown in Global Innovation Index over the past few years. It is shown that the pandemic has accelerated the process of robotization in health care in the regions. The authors consider an example of smart devices that actively help doctors in this period and another one of a Russian startup “Connectome.ai” which is the invention to control biosafety at DIREKTIVA: CEO enterprises. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.