The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and the technological development of Adam’s Hand®
The acronym TRL comes from Technology Readiness Level and corresponds to a scale of numerical values that estimate the technological maturity of a product. Where do TRLs come from? The NASA was the first that used this tool to quantify its technological development. In 1977 it started to assign values compared to the levels of […]
Patents and protection of industrial inventions: BionIT Labs® and the intellectual property
In order to describe the characteristics of a patent for an industrial invention, it is important to introduce the concept of intellectual property. This is a system of legal protection of intangible assets, which are the result of human creativity and talent, and they acquire a growing economic significance over time. The patent registration: how […]