Assessment of commercialization potential of innovative projects for improving university technology transfer

Purpose: to develop a mathematical model in the context of implementing concession and tariff types of contracts of heat grid organizations to mitigate the threat to economic security associated with the inequality of parameters contained in contracts.
Methods: the benchmarking method was used to identify disagreements arising in tariff regulation when using the concession contract model in the regions. For studying problems of calculating tariffs for thermal energy, the methods of economically justified costs (expenses), tariff indexation and mathematical modeling are used.
Results: parameters are selected, the change of which will lead to a threat to economic security. Mathematical modeling was carried out, which showed the need for equality of concession and tariff types of contracts. A set of restrictions is developed to ensure the economic security of resource supplying organizations.
Conclusions and Relevance: the economic security of natural monopolies depends on the achieved balance of interests between resource suppliers and consumers. Public-private partnership in the form of concession agreements is currently one of the effective tools in the process of modernizing the infrastructure of monopolies. In this regard, a substantiation of the model of tariff regulation of resource supplying organizations with a set of certain restrictions was made, under the conditions of concluding and implementing concession agreements under two types of contracts (concession and tariff ).

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