Principles of Assessment of Intellectual Potential of an Enterprise

The article identifies the role of intellectual potential of an enterprise as a moving force of innovation activity of an economic subject. It underlines that approaches to assessment of intellectual potential of an enterprise should be based on evolution of conceptions on enterprise potential and system of principles. Using the existing approaches to assessment of intellectual potential, that exist if the scientific economic literature, from the point of view of their correspondence with the essence of economic category of intellectual potential of an enterprise, the article forms three groups of principles and lists the main ones in each group. The article reveals the logic of assessment of intellectual potential specifying the cause-effect relations between the structural elements.