摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide chances for investing to research and development by objectively evaluating research and development and disclosing the result to general investors, and to distribute the revenues according to the investment amount. <P>SOLUTION: A processing section reads research project information, research result information, research cost balance information, and expected result information from a storage section for each piece of research theme identification information (S101-S109). The processing section calculates the total research investment A so far and the future research investment B according to each piece of research theme identification information (S111). The processing section calculates predicted royalty fee H and the risk factor I (S113). The processing section calculates the profit index R for predicting the probability with which each research theme can gain profit when commercialized, and rates the profit indexes (S115). The processing section stores research theme information including a variety of information on research and developments (S117). The processing section creates a set of investments by selecting a plurality of research themes of the same or similar research groups (S121), and discloses pubic information on the set of investments via a communication network (S123). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO</p> |