NICHE TECHNOLOGY AREA SEARCH, ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION SUPPORT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR

摘要

The present invention relates to an information processing method and an information processing system in which the methodologies specific to internationally-harmonised, US, Japanese and European patent classification, and other classification methodologies such as index classification, are supported in such a way as to be able to effectively search niche technology areas by making active use of the same, and are supported in such a way as to allow multi-faceted analysis of niche technology areas by using evaluation element values for a plurality of niche evaluation elements, and in which a niche evaluation model is generated using niche evaluation reference values and niche evaluation element values, and niche technology areas are evaluated using the niche evaluation model so generated. Embodiment of the present invention has the advantage that niche technology areas can be searched, analysed and evaluated, and niche technology areas can be discovered effectively.