The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India invites inputs and comments from the public, research institutions, industry stakeholders, and academia on the draft "National Technology Readiness Level (TRL) Assessment Framework."
As India’s R&D ecosystem expands through initiatives like the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), there is a critical need for a unified, transparent, and data-driven standard to measure technology maturity. Currently, various organizations use modified versions of TRL definitions, leading to inconsistencies in assessing research translation.
To address this, a comprehensive TRL Assessment Tool and Framework has been developed in consultation with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and a multidisciplinary team of experts from industry, academia, and research labs.
The TRA process needs to be integrated with the process of funded research between the funding organization and research institute. In absence of comprehensive information of the existing processes, we are recommending some generic guidelines which can be tuned based on the specific processes for a specific organization. Typically, when a project is funded, there is an initial TRL and the final desired TRL for the project which is documented along with the project proposal. Subsequently, the project goes through intermittent time based (e.g. quarterly, or half yearly) or toll gate based (T1, T2, etc.) reviews. Either way, the project plan is well documented in terms of requirements of progress within a specific period of time / specific tollgate. To be able to adhere to and accurately measure TRL progression, we propose that the TRL progression timeline should also be proposed at the time of project proposal and approved during fund approval along with project plan. There is no specific guideline on how long movement from TRLn to TRL(n+1) should take, as that depends on multiple factors like funding level, technology domain, project plan, etc. – however, the plan should be laid out and followed from then on. During the subsequent reviews, we propose that the TRL progression should be one of the review parameters, along with other technical and financial reviews.
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