The analysis of the transformation of the competitive landscape based on intellectual property rights in the technological field “Seed breeding, selection and production of plant protection means” for the period from 1999 to 2018, which led to the monopolization of the market of elite seeds and plant protection means in 2018, was carried out. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption that in the modern format of the world economy, the achievement of market and technological leadership is impossible without superiority in the space of global intellectual property. Therefore, the formation of any technological oligopoly should be reflected in the patent landscape of the corresponding technological space. The focus of this study was the dynamics of the volume of patent rights that appear in companies that are both technological and market leaders and form the technological oligopoly.

The review of the key indicators of the global scientific and technological ecosystem development; updated in 2018; is carried out to determine the important trends and focuses for Russia. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that the share of the business sector in industrialized countries is becoming a major source of R & D funding. In the Russian Federation; total R & D investments by all Russian industrial companies in 2016 amounted to €8.39 billion in PPP terms; which is less than the 2016 budget of each individual company included in the top 10 rankings of the European Commission “EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard”. The domestic expenditure on research and development in the Russian Federation in 2015 were lower than the combined corporate budgets of three companies in the world: Volkswagen; Alphabet and Microsoft.

The purpose of this study was to perform a survey of indicators and criteria on the basis of which foreign and Russian companies can be classified as technologically advanced and innovative. We compared the approaches used by international and domestic analytical companies to identify and rank technologically advanced companies, as well as lists of companies that ranked first in the various ratings of 2017–2018. A hypothesis was confirmed that there is no single methodologically valid approach to identifying high-tech companies in the world. It is shown that the lists of companies that are the leaders of global ratings of innovative companies in the world are weakly correlated and depend on the set of indicators used.

The article describes the model of integrated assessment of technological readiness of innovative scientific and technological projects, which is an integral part of the methodology of expert evaluation of projects. The model can be used both at the stage of selection of applications for project financing, and for creating tools for measuring the level of technological readiness of projects in the course of their implementation. The application of the proposed model will make it possible to formulate unified approaches and requirements to the formation of a system of criteria for the expert evaluation of innovative scientific and technological projects at various stages of their life cycle that can be used by various development institutions, and for project implementers –  to determine the degree of readiness of the results obtained for industrial implementation.

The article describes a software tool for the integrated assessment of technological readiness of innovative scientific and technological projects used for expert evaluation of the projects of the Federal Target Program «Research and Development in Priority Areas of Russia’s Scientific and Technological Development for 2014–2020». The software is developed on the basis of client-server technologies and implemented as a Web-system in the Internet. The functionality of the software implements a model of integrated assessment of technological readiness of innovative scientific and technological projects. The scheme of the business process of using the software as by the executors of projects for an independent assessment of the level of technological readiness of the project, and for its expert evaluation is presented. The software can be used to create an information system or can be integrated into existing distributed access tool systems in which quantitative assessments of the technological readiness of projects are carried out.

To assess the potential for the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies, as well as the competitiveness of Russian developments, a patent-market analysis of one of the dynamically developing technological areas introduced in the program «Digital Healthcare» was done. The results of the completed patent study allow us to characterize the direction of «virtual and supplemented reality in medicine» as a promising, but far from generating market products and services that could form a new market within 3–5 years. Despite the great interest in digital technologies and the new design of the economy that they created, the Russian Federation still occupies the 11th place in the world for patent activity in the field of virtual and augmented reality in medicine, and obviously underestimating the fact that the first positions of the world companies rating by the volume of patent portfolios are already occupied by such experienced market players as Philips, Sony, Samsung Electronics, Siemens healthcare, General Electric and Microsoft technology licensing.