A Model of a Complex Assessment of Innovative Technological Solutions.

An unquestionable need, resulting from the macroeconomic expectations of increasing the level of the innovativeness and competitiveness of national economies, is to develop products, technologies, and conduct projects that are innovative and comply with market needs. Technology assessment (TA) is one of the core challenges in innovation management. Against the background of different technology assessment methods and models, the authors of the paper present an original complex technology assessment system developed and applied at the Institute for Sustainable Technologies - National Research Institute in Radom, Poland. The system is devoted to the assessment of incremental technologies with respect to their implementation maturity, commercial potential, innovativeness level, and implementation risk level. The authors present possibilities of the system application and examples of its use for the assessment of technological solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]