Finding Opportunities
Short Technology Assessment Form
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Data to be collected
1. Summary of the development (main points and scientific and technical novelty of the development, unique features and novelty of the suggested investigation. Fields of application). What is the purpose of the final product or technology? What are new possibilities for customers? What problems of customers will be solved?
2. Brief comparison with available home and foreign analogs or with those under development with respect to fields of application, technical parameters, environmental parameters, cost, etc.
3. What is known about investigations performed in the same field at present (name of the work, year, authors, institution, etc.)? Which organizations and researchers work on the same problem in [your country] and abroad? Whom of them do you contact?
What results do they have as compared to yours (are they behind or ahead)?
4. Stage of the development (degree of completeness)
q Theoretical basic research
q Basic research
q Laboratory sample
q Pilot sample
q Preparation of documentation
q Pilot plant (arranging of small production)
q Semi-industrial development
q Industrial plant
5. What are the rights to the development, and who owns the rights?
6. Who else can claim the rights to the development (external organizations, collaborators, etc.)
7. Publications describing the development
q papers
q reports to external organizations
q abstracts
q objects of industrial property (patent, certificate, etc.)
q others
8. Is there any financial and/or organizational support of your research by other organizations (including governmental and municipal bodies)? In which form is it (grants, additional funding, subcontracts, enlisting of employees, materials, equipment, software)?
9. Is standard technological equipment necessary for realization of the development, or is unique equipment necessary (for industrial application)?
10. Which techniques and instruments available in the department can be useful for external customers?
11. Which software, databases, etc developed in the department can be useful for external customers?
12. Did you get in touch with potential partners concerning the development realization? Are there any obligations?
13. Are there preliminary agreements on purchasing the rights for the results of the work implementation?
14. Who, in your opinion, could be a potential client for the development?
15. What help would you like [organization conducting this assessment] to supply in realization of your developments?
This assessment form was adapted from similar technology assessment procedures developed by Oxford Innovation Ltd http://www.oxin.co.uk/ Used with permission.