On the issue of the legal concept and criteria of nature-like technologies

• Published in: Юридические исследования no. 6; pp. 27 - 43
• Main Author: Rednikova, Tatiana Vladimirovna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.06.2025
• ISSN: 2409-7136; 2409-7136
• DOI: 10.25136/2409-7136.2025.6.75013

In the modern world, ensuring the technological sovereignty of the state becomes the goal, without which the very possibility of its existence can be questioned. One of the main strategic priorities of the state, which form the basis of its national security, is the acceleration of scientific and technological development in all directions. The priorities and prospects of this area of development of our country, which should be implemented in the next decade, include the transition to the development of nature-like technologies. The subject of this article is nature-like technologies from the point of view of considering the content of this concept currently used in the Russian Federation in various branches of science and economic activity, as well as possible criteria for classifying technology as nature-like. When writing the article, general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, and abstraction were used, which made it possible to identify the essential characteristics of nature-like technologies that should be used in formulating the legal definition of this concept. Using methods of comparison and interpretation, concepts with similar meanings, as well as various criteria for classifying technology as nature-like, have been identified. The study concluded that leadership in the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, including nature-like technologies, is the cornerstone of ensuring the national security of the state. The possibility of effective implementation of the goals of the Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation in terms of the development of nature-like technologies is inextricably linked with the improvement of legislation in order to ensure their development at a faster pace and effectively prevent possible risks of their use. At the same time, when developing regulatory legal acts in this area, an interdisciplinary approach should be ensured with various branches of science, as well as between different branches of law – civil, administrative, information, environmental, energy and others. When forming the legal concept of nature-like technologies, it seems necessary to include their most general essential characteristics in it. At the same time, the criterion of the need to include technologies and objects created on their basis in the natural resource turnover should be applied to all innovative technologies, regardless of whether they are nature-like or not, which should become an independent goal of scientific and technological development of mankind.