Investigation of risk in the activities of higher education institutions in the context of securing their economic safety

The object of research is the process of ensuring the economic security of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the context of the effective management of their intellectual capital. The conducted research of the change in the integral index and the place in the rating of TOP-200 Ukraine HEIs, displaced from temporary occupied territories for 2013–2017 indicates that the first group of 6 HEIs did not leave the limits of their fifty in the top 200 HEIs. At that, the first 5 managed to retain and even improve the value of the integral indicator. The «risk» concept as a detailed elaboration of the threats to the activity of the university, which can result as a result of the negative influence of the factors of the external and internal environment in financial and economic losses, is concretized in the conceptual-categorical apparatus of economic security, in particular in higher education institutions. The directions of reducing the risks of the functioning of higher education institutions have been determined, they have been moved from the temporarily occupied territories in the context of the positive impact of the reliability of the protection of intellectual assets on their economic security, followed by the transfer of trends to Ukrainian higher education institution: – implementation of international business integration and academic mobility programs; – development and implementation of development programs for scientific and pedagogical workers; – creation of entrepreneurial and innovative structures within the framework of projects for the development of regions of different types, types and scales. It is determined that further research involves the development of a methodical approach to assessing the HEIs economic security by using integrated indicators of their ratings as intermediate, in particular, in the formation of a balanced system of indicators adapted to the HEIs needs.