Technologies measured nine lives – Newspaper Kommersant No. 6 (7451) of 16.01.
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The Ministry of Education and Science is preparing a legal basis for the acceptance of scientific and technical developments, depending on the level of readiness of technologies and assessing the results of their use. First of all, we are talking about developments financed from the budget. The draft order submitted by the department establishes nine levels of technology readiness – from its concept and justification to practical application. Data on these levels will be loaded into a special information system, which should become the basis of scientific research management. It is expected that the extension of the general “digital approach” of the government to public administration to scientific activities will allow the authorities to increase the efficiency of public spending in this area.
The Ministry of Education and Science posted on regulation.gov.ru a draft order on the procedure for determining the levels of readiness of developed or developed technologies, as well as scientific and scientific and technical results corresponding to each level of readiness of these technologies. Such rules are needed to evaluate scientific and technical projects carried out within the framework of state assignments, grants and contracts at the expense of budgetary funds and other sources of funding.
De facto, the document will become a legal basis for the acceptance of scientific and technical results, depending on the level of technology readiness and evaluation of the result of their use. The need to prepare such a document by March 1, 2023 was envisaged a year ago by the road map, which implies the extension of the government’s general “digital approach” to public administration to scientific activities (see Kommersant dated February 2, 2022).
According to the draft order, the level of technology readiness is determined by quantitative and qualitative performance indicators. At the same time, the transition from one level of readiness to another should ensure the achievement of the stages of a complete innovation cycle. The project has nine levels of technology readiness. The first (initial) involves defining the fundamental concept and substantiating the usefulness of the technology. The ninth (mature) involves already serial production. The level of technology maturity will be determined based on peer review.
Information about the levels of readiness of technologies will be posted in the Unified State Information System for Accounting for Research, Development and Technological Works for Civil Purposes (EGISU R&D). It should become the basis of the scientific research management system, which is carried out with the involvement of budget funding. It is assumed that this system will provide the authorities with data for a more accurate understanding of the current state of Russian science and increase the efficiency of its budgetary financing. It should be noted that, according to the HSE Institute for Statistical Research and Economics of Knowledge, at the end of 2021, state funds accounted for two thirds (67.5%) of domestic research and development costs, and business – only 29% (see Kommersant from September 9, 2022).
In addition to the draft order on technology readiness levels, the Ministry of Education and Science presented two more documents. These are draft orders on an updated form for submitting information about the scientific work being started, as well as on the format for sending information to EGISU R&D, taking into account the industry specifics of civilian research, development and technological work performed in the interests of medicine and healthcare.
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