Economic security as a condition of institutional support of economy modernization

The article presents the theoretical aspects of the essential-conceptual approach to the notion of the category of "economic security", there are considered different perspectives on the process of its terminological apparatus in the modernization of the economy. The authors identified current trends and patterns of institutional support of modernization of the economy in the emergence of new threats. There are highlighted the conceptual approaches to the systematization of methods and mechanisms to protect the economic interests of businesses. The main directions of institutional sustainable ecological and economic development at the macro level are defined. © IDOSI Publications, 2014