Essential characteristics of venture financing are structured in the article, its treatment as an economic category is suggested. A number of common institutional criteria for the assessment of intellectual products potential feasibility in the system of venture financing are outlined and grounded. The structure of institutional field of venture financing (by the example of the Sverdlovsk Region) is elaborated with consideration of projected development and coevolution of formal and informal institutions as a favourable environment for drawing into economic turnover and commercialization of technological developments and projects.
Keywords: venture financing, intellectual products potential, institutional assessment criteria, institutional field