Published: 15 March 2016
Purpose. The research is targeted at analyzing methodological approaches to selecting directions of financial support to innovative territorial clusters and also at offering methodology of integral assessment of innovative territorial cluster activity based on quantitative and qualitative criteria. Methods. With the aim of considering innovative programs, policies and regulations of innovative territorial development the research is based on comparative analysis and systematization, and on mathematical methods to design integral methods for innovative territorial cluster activity estimation. Results and practical importance. The methodology of integral estimation of innovative territorial cluster activity provides for developing a direction of the further state financial support to innovative territorial cluster. At the same time, the article gives an overview of the proposals on measures of state support to innovative infrastructure in the innovative territorial clusters. Scientific novelty. A combination of revealed cluster development potentials is identified as the criterion for selecting tools of state support to innovative territorial clusters. Subsidies out of state budget are also found to be the most effective for supporting clusters with high strategic and research capacity.