The current economic situation is characterized by the impossibility of using ordinary approaches to making managerial decisions on the formation of the structure of participants in the innovation process. The practice of using economic patterns associated with the assessment of individual partners on the basis of information received from their international ratings is not relevant in the context of the growing importance of geo–economic factors. Russian companies'-innovators are faced with the task of making a management decision on the structure of partners in the innovative supply chain based on the generated economic model of the innovation process, taking into account the current features and long–term priorities of the company’s development in an exclusive combination of external and internal environment parameters. The article proposes an innovation model that provides the possibility of making a managerial decision.