Commercial Readiness Level (CRL)
The CRL is an Indicator (2) developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E). It helps to do a Commercial assessment to determine how ready an idea is to take to market. Therefore, enables key barriers to be addressed to support the commercialization of a technology (1). Originally created for solutions in the Cleantech industry, its use can be trespass to other verticals.
New approaches are the European observatory of research and innovation in the field of Cybersecurity and Privacy (6) The New York State of Opportunity (NYSERDA) uses a template for complete an assessment and can be downloaded here.
(2) https://www.masscec.com/blog/2017/03/20/emerging-cleantech-%E2%80%93-part-1-technology-ready-market
(3) https://energium.kier.re.kr/attach/planning/beb18caa0f1073943879a14184759cbe.pdf
(4) https://files.masscec.com/COMMERCIAL%20READINESS%20LEVELS.pdf
(5) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1493165
(6) https://www.cyberwatching.eu/sites/default/files/D2.3_Methodology-for-the-classification-of-projects-and-market-readiness_vFinal.pdf
(7) https://grantedltd.co.uk/funding-blog/what-is-crl/
(8) from DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/Transition-and-Commercialization-Guide-122019.pdf
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