In the face of global challenges in the economy related to digitalization and the transformation of business models/tools, the issue of determining the architectonics of the “smart city” management system as a complex socio-economic system becomes relevant. The aim of the work is to substantiate the possibility of using the network-centric management method and multi-level nested Petri nets to ensure a synergistic effect when interacting with resident companies of the technopole in the framework of the transition to operation, in accordance with the concept of Industry 4.0.

The research methodology involves the consideration of the concept of “smart city” as an ecosystem of the mesoscale. As an object of study, a set of technopoles in Moscow (city), which is a micro level in the smart city management system, is adopted. When conducting research, statistical information processing methods were used (including a summary, grouping and comparison), as well as methods of an integrated approach and system analysis. The results of the study are recommendations for the formation of the architectonics of the smart city management system in the context of increasing processes of digitalization of the economy. The novelty of the obtained research results is to develop an approach to describing the features of the interaction among management companies and residents of their clusters with the external environment based on a single digital platform and cloud technologies.