The purpose of the article is to study the innovation levers of developing the intellectual background for economic growth in two groups of post-socialist Central and Eastern European countries (middle-income and lower-middle-income countries). To achieve that, the quantitative effect of the national intellectual capital components (human capital, market capital, structural capital and capital of renewal and development) on the dynamics of the countries’ economic growth was determined.For both groups, multiple regressions have been constructed that reflect the quantitative relationship between the economic growth rates (in the regressions – the indicator of real gross domestic product per capita) and the components of national intellectual capital in 2010–2018. It has been established that the key innovative indicator of the economic growth of middle-income countries is the national capital of renewal and development, which in general corresponds to the pan-European model of innovation and investment development. Education is the main factor that provides the basis for the economic growth of lower-middle-income countries. Recommendations on improvement of national innovation policy are offered.

The purpose of the article is to justify the approach to assessing of the valuation of information resources in the analysis of cybersecurity entrepreneurship. Like any other economic resource, information has a value that you need to not only increase, but also be able to protect during the process of entrepreneurship. The most developed resource screening tool with the special features is structured analysis and design technique of real options. Real options are defined as valuable, rare and difficult to reproduce abilities or resources that create exclusive opportunities for the entrepreneur to choose strategies for developing his activities. Each real option has its own specifics, which necessitates a certain modification of the general methodology for specific conditions. When choosing a strategy for ensuring cybersecurity as a basic protected resource, structural (organizational) capital should be recognized, since an entrepreneur does not have legal ownership rights for employees and, accordingly, for their human capital. Nevertheless, the costs of protecting intellectual property arising from joint organizational and labor activities should be taken into account. According to statistics, up to 40% of all information leakages are associated with relationships within the organization and the attitude of staff towards work, respectively, the cost of a protected resource should take into account the level and state of organizational culture. Proceeding from special aspects of cybersecurity, it should be resorted to indirect measurements of the volatility of the main resource. The methods and indicators of indirect measurements should follow from the methods for assessing the main resource in the option, which will be the directions of subsequent studies.