Integrated framework for assessing innovation readiness

📣 The development of innovation, which is an integral part of ensuring technological security, should take into account engineering aspects on an equal footing with social, political, organisational, legal, economic and ethical aspects. In the face of the growing scale of hybrid threats, digital attacks on critical infrastructure and disruptions to global supply chains, technological sovereignty is becoming a pillar of the defence and development strategies of the EU and world powers. Without a clearly defined, multidimensional readiness assessment framework – including Societal Readiness Levels (SRL), Policy Readiness Levels (PRL), Organisational Readiness Levels (ORL), Legal Readiness Levels (LRL), Economic Readiness Levels (ERL) and traditional Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) – we risk introducing solutions that, although technically sound, may be susceptible to social, administrative, legal or economic rejection, and thus ineffective and costly to implement.