Methodical Approach to Assessing the Readiness Level of Technologies for the Transfer

摘要

The author's method of assessing the readiness level of the research and development for commercialization in the market named TAPDS is developed. The TAPDS method thoroughly takes into account the market component and the readiness of consumers to acquire the research and development. The author's TAPDS methodology, in contrast to the existing methodological approaches, will enable the evaluators more thoroughly to take into account the market component and readiness of consumers to acquire the researched R&D products. Unlike existing ones, the value of the proposed TAPDS method is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the technology's readiness for the transfer. The complexity of the assessment is ensured by a specially developed formalized toolkit, which includes the evaluation of technology at the analytical, technological and patent levels of its readiness, as well as the level of readiness of demand for technology and the impact of society on its development. The method of hierarchy analysis is used for expert evaluation comparison. The clustering analysis is provided using k-means and c-means algorithms. The discriminant analysis is used for finding parameters influents for level of readiness and complexity reduction.