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Technology Readiness Level

Technology Readiness Level

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Arkady Kulik walks us through NASA's "Technology Readiness Level" scale, which Arkady's fund uses to assess deep tech investment opportunities Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ri94tSHrx4

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Understanding Technology Readiness Levels

Arkady Kulik introduces the concept of Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), a scale developed by NASA to evaluate the maturity of technologies. He explains the initial phases (0-3) as theoretical, where researchers formulate hypotheses and conduct experiments, primarily funded by universities and grants. The discussion progresses to phases 4-7, focusing on validation, prototyping, and the transition to commercialization, emphasizing the challenges of marketing and sales in bringing technology to market.

"the scale that we use is technology Readiness level it was invented by NASA to gauge the technologies that were mostly created within NASA and 0o to three is theoretical phases and when a scientist or..."