The experience of developed countries regarding the peculiarities of investment in innovative projects, in particular the EU, USA, Japan, was analyzed. It has been proved that the strategic predicate of ensuring the country’s economic security is the promotion of a favorable economic and legal, financial and resource-based support for the development of scientific and innovative activity. The tools of activation of innovative activity of organizations and corresponding regulatory mechanisms of influence of the state policy were determined. A system of critiques and factors was developed for the recognition of the innovative activity of subjects of the basic structure of ecology in five groups of types of innovations: social-economic, marketing, market-oriented, government, technical. It was revealed that the main risk factor for the development of innovations, which objectively precedes the institutional-independent activity of economic entities, is to motivate the owners of organizations for their activities. This factor acts on the social and psychological level, since, their application is a key importance, including the fact that their monitoring does not require significant expenditures.