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The Federation Council, at its final meeting this year, approved the law on technological policy in Russia. According to the law, the goals of this policy are to ensure the technological sovereignty of the Russian Federation, the competitiveness of domestic high-tech products and the efficiency of their creation through the introduction of technological innovations, their accelerated implementation to improve the quality and standard of living of Russian citizens, ensure the country's defense and state security.
The accelerated implementation of innovations will also be facilitated by technology transfer, in connection with which new national standards for this complex have been approved by orders of Rosstandart.
Let us recall that technology transfer is the process of transferring technologies and the corresponding rights to them from the transferring party to the receiving party for the purpose of their subsequent implementation and use. The use of standard methods in this area creates the opportunity to develop end-to-end technologies and produce innovative products based on them. An important element of technology transfer is a systematic and objective assessment of the level of market, production and investment readiness of both transferred and newly created technologies. It is the general methodology for assessing the maturity of technologies and systems that new standards contain, defining the requirements for achieving each of the levels of technology readiness:
- technology readiness level (TRL, 9 levels in total) - GOST R 71726-2024 “Technology transfer. Guidelines for assessing the technology readiness level (TRL)” ;
- market readiness level (CRL, 9 levels in total) - GOST R 71727-2024 “Technology transfer. Guidelines for assessing the market readiness level (CRL)” ;
- investment readiness level (IRL, 9 levels in total) - GOST R 71729-2024 “Technology transfer. Methodological guidelines for assessing the investment readiness level (IRL)” ;
- manufacturing readiness level (MRL, 10 levels in total) - GOST R 71728-2024 “Technology transfer. Guidelines for assessing the manufacturing readiness level (MRL)” .
The standards outline criteria for determining stages of development and contain recommendations on the procedure for interaction between stakeholders, such as the founder, the technology recipient organization, and the investor, when making decisions on the implementation of technology transfer projects.
The approved GOSTs also introduce standard assessment sheets for levels of technology readiness, market readiness, production readiness and investment readiness at all levels of the scale.
"The emergence of standards in technology transfer activities is evidence of the increasing maturity of this services market, the harmonization of communications between its various participants, which should ultimately lead to higher efficiency and effectiveness of the projects being implemented," said Anton Yanovsky , Director of the Center for Commercialization of Developments and Technology Transfer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. "It is important to emphasize the comprehensive approach reflected in the standards. Technology transfer activities are assessed by several metrics at once. It is the consideration of several dimensions of project development and their balance that ensures success in technology transfer projects."
The standards were developed by a working group of experts led by the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the Russian Register Certification Association within the framework of Technical Committee for Standardization No. 115 “Sustainable Development” (TC 115) and will come into effect on January 1, 2025.
