Evaluation and measurement of technological functions

Abstract

Technological transfer is an important factor of technological development and requires assessment and measurement of effects. Evaluation and measurement can be done with the use of models, the most important being the model of the technology, i.e. of the object being transferred. In the paper, a version of technological function's model is developed, starting from the models of interaction, establishing links, choosing the mechanism and forming the interaction interface, forming the technological function by modifying the internal functions of the objects in interaction and modifying the properties them. The modifications of the properties of the object subjected to the action, of the object carrying technological tasks and of the object-interface serves as the basis for the evaluation and measurement of the technological function in all its complexity. It is shown that technological task bearers can be of two categories: physical-technical (materials, energy, processes, etc.) and immaterial (theories, concepts, data, knowledge, etc.). Both the mechanisms and the measure of manifestation of the technological functions for the two categories are different.