Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts are applied in this Law:

innovation — a new development introduced into civil circulation or used for one's own needs, the application of which in practice ensures the achievement of a significant socio-economic effect;

innovative infrastructure — a set of enterprises, organizations, institutions, their associations of any form of ownership, carrying out material and technical, financial, organizational and methodological, information, consulting and other support for innovative activity;

an innovative project — a set of measures that provide for deadlines, performers, sources of funding and the formation of an appropriate infrastructure for the creation of new developments;

innovative activity — activity on the creation of new developments, as well as ensuring their transfer and implementation in the production sector;

state order for the creation of innovations — an assignment for the performance of an innovative project at the expense of the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and other sources not prohibited by law;

transfer of technologies — a set of measures aimed at transferring a new development from the sphere of its receipt (development) to the sphere of practical application;

a new development — is the result of intellectual activity (new or improved technology, service and organizational and technical solution of a production, administrative, commercial or other nature), which has signs of novelty compared to existing analogues, practical applicability and the ability to ensure the achievement of a significant socio-economic effect when use in practice.