Аннотация
In the context of the choice by many CIS countries of the policy of transition to an innovative economy, it is important to highlight the innovative component as a factor in ensuring economic security.Many scientists propose to make it as an independent object of research, and introduce such a concept as "innovative security" (Rakhimova, 2012).The relevance of this aspect is confirmed by the growing trends of global competition, integration interactions of economic systems.When considering the term -innovative security, it should be noted that innovative processes are multifaceted and are a consequence of the functioning of aggregated factors of economic security:-natural resource potential (quantity, quality and structure of natural resources); -human potential (quantity, quality and structure of human resources); -production and economic potential (quantity, quality and structure of the productive forces of society, fixed assets, including equipment and technologies).Of all the above represented by the element, the locomotive link of innovation security is the human potential and its quality state, represented by intellectual potential, which is shown in Figure 1. Ensuring economic security