Analysis of sources of financing the intellectual property

The goal of the article lies in identification of the state and modern tendencies of use of intellectual property. The article analyses the sources of financing the intellectual property in Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrivsk oblasts and also in Ukraine in general, moreover, it analyses the specific weight of the volume of performed scientific and technical works in the gross domestic product in CIS countries. On the basis of analytical materials of the CIS Statistics Committee the article identifies internal expenditures on the study and development in recent years in the majority of the Commonwealth countries. Based on the analysis, it identifies that a tendency that did not appear previously to such an extent manifests itself now. Its essence is in the fact that among two assets sectors - tangible and intangible - the role of the latter increases. Ukraine has a powerful intellectual potential, that is why, there is a necessity today to search for the ways of efficient use of objects of intellectual property.