The article analyzes the phenomenon of the trading zone in Russian practice, as well as the impact of
interconnection of digital (platform) instruments of aggregation, integration and decentralized network of
public spaces on the development of innovation and technology entrepreneurship in Russia. The need to form
a national innovation system is due to changes in the socio-economic system of society, as well as isolation
caused by the pandemic. As an example, the authors analyzed the work of a digital platform Leader-ID and
the network of open common work places Boiling Points launched within the framework of technological
leadership development in Russia. The article discusses the mechanism of such spaces' emergence, their
connection with the digital platform. The significance of online and offline environment synthesis in a
pandemic is discussed.