In pursuit of innovational development in electric grid domain of Russian economy the strategy based on import substitution and technology transfer has been chosen. The indispensible element of this strategy is building an efficient system of economic collaboration between the partners. Current research reveals and offers an analysis of the main forms of economic collaboration, the criteria for the assessment of the systems of economic collaboration, as well as the instruments for determining the priorities among those systems. Basing on the results received, the possible strategies of efficient constructing of economic collaboration have been elaborated in order to answer the purpose of innovational development of the economy.