Enterprise Evaluation Device, Enterprise Evaluation Program and Enterprise Evaluation Method

• US 20080021750A1
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hiroaki Masuyama, Intellectual Property Bank Corp.
• Original Assignee: Hiroaki Masuyama, Intellectual Property Bank Corp.
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Kaoru, Masuyama, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US11/631,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20080021750A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To provide a company evaluation device enabling comprehensive evaluation of a company or industry in an easy way.

[MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The device comprises company index acquiring means (transmission/reception means (365) or the like) for acquiring a company index, comprehensive evaluation index acquiring means (transmission/reception means (365) or the like) for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index, factor analyzing means (information processing means (380)) for performing factor analysis using the acquired company index and generating a factor, contribution ratio calculating means (information processing means (380)) for performing multiple regression analysis using the factor and comprehensive evaluation index and calculating a contribution ratio concerning the comprehensive evaluation index, and output means (display interface (373) or the like) for outputting the factor, contribution ratio, company index, factor loading, and comprehension evaluation index on display means or the like.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. An enterprise evaluation device, comprising:

enterprise index acquisition means for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

comprehensive evaluation index acquisition means for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

factor analysis means for extracting enterprise indexes by performing factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes;

contribution ratio calculation means for calculating a contribution ratio J in relation to said comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index; and

output means for outputting each of said extracted enterprise indexes and contribution ratio J thereof, and said comprehensive evaluation index to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

23. An enterprise evaluation device, comprising:

enterprise index acquisition means for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

factor analysis means for creating a factor C by performing factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes, and calculating a factor score C for each enterprise; and

output means for outputting said factor scores C and enterprise names corresponding thereto in the order of said factor score C to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

24. An enterprise evaluation device, comprising:

enterprise index acquisition means for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

comprehensive evaluation index acquisition means for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

contribution ratio calculation means for calculating a contribution ratio J in relation to a comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index; and

output means for outputting each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof, and said comprehensive evaluation index to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

25. An enterprise evaluation device, comprising:

enterprise index acquisition means for acquiring, for a plurality of enterprises,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

comprehensive evaluation index acquisition means for acquiring, for each of said plurality of enterprises, a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

principal component analysis means for calculating a principal component score of each enterprise by performing principal component analysis based on said enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise;

output means for outputting said principal component scores to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

26. The enterprise evaluation device according to claim 25, further comprising:

factor analysis means for extracting factors C by performing factor analysis using said enterprise indexes acquired by said enterprise index acquisition means; and

contribution ratio calculation means for calculating a contribution ratio J of each factor C in relation to the comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said factors C of each enterprise extracted by said factor analysis means and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise acquired by said comprehensive evaluation index acquisition means, and further selecting a factor J from said factors C based on said contribution ratio J;

wherein said principal component analysis means performs the principal component analysis based on said enterprise indexes configuring the factor J selected by said contribution ratio calculation means, and said comprehensive evaluation index.

27. A device for identifying factor and/or index contributing to enterprise evaluation, comprising:

enterprise index acquisition means for acquiring, for a plurality of enterprises, industry by industry,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

comprehensive evaluation index acquisition means for acquiring, for each of said plurality of enterprises, industry by industry, a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

factor analysis means for extracting factors C by performing, industry by industry, factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes;

contribution ratio calculation means for calculating a contribution ratio J of each factor C in relation to the comprehensive evaluation index by performing, industry by industry, multiple regression analysis using said factors C of each enterprise and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise, and further selecting a factor J from said factors C based on said contribution ratio J; and

output means for outputting, industry by industry, said enterprise indexes configuring the factor J selected by said contribution ratio calculation means to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

28. A device for identifying factor and/or index contributing to enterprise evaluation, comprising:

enterprise index acquisition means for acquiring, for each of a plurality of enterprises,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

comprehensive evaluation index acquisition means for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

contribution ratio calculation means for calculating a contribution ratio J of each enterprise index in relation to said comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes and the comprehensive evaluation index; and

output means for outputting, industry by industry, each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

29. An enterprise evaluation program for causing a computer to execute:

a function of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a function of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a function of factor analysis for extracting enterprise indexes by performing factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes;

a function of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J in relation to said comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index; and

a function of output for outputting said extracted each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof, and said comprehensive evaluation index to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

30. An enterprise evaluation program for causing a computer to execute:

a function of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a function of factor analysis for creating a factor C by performing factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes, and calculating a factor score C for each enterprise; and

a function of output for outputting said factor scores C and enterprise names corresponding thereto in the order of said factor score C to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

31. An enterprise evaluation program for causing a computer to execute:

a function of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a function of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a function of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J in relation to a comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index; and

a function of output for outputting each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof, and said comprehensive evaluation index to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

32. An enterprise evaluation program for causing a computer to execute:

a function of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring, for a plurality of enterprises,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a function of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring, for each of said plurality of enterprises, a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a function of principal component analysis for calculating a principal component score of each enterprise by performing principal component analysis based on said enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise;

a function of output for outputting said principal component score to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

33. The enterprise evaluation program according to claim 32, further causing the computer to execute:

a function of factor analysis for extracting factors C by performing factor analysis using said enterprise indexes acquired by said function of enterprise index acquisition; and

a function of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J of each factor C in relation to the comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said factors C of each enterprise extracted by said function of factor analysis and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise acquired by said function of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition, and further selecting a factor J from said factors C based on said contribution ratio J;

wherein said function of principal component analysis is to perform the principal component analysis based on said enterprise indexes configuring the factor J selected by said function of contribution ratio calculation, and said comprehensive evaluation index.

34. A program for identifying factor and/or index contributing to enterprise evaluation by causing a computer to execute:

a function of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring, for each of a plurality of enterprises, industry by industry,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a function of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring, for each of said plurality of enterprises, industry by industry, a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a function of factor analysis for extracting factors C by performing, industry by industry, factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes;

a function of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J of each factor C in relation to the comprehensive evaluation index by performing, industry by industry, multiple regression analysis using said factors C of each enterprise and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise, and further selecting a factor J from said factors C based on said contribution ratio J; and

a function of output for outputting, industry by industry, said enterprise indexes configuring the factor J selected by said function of contribution ratio calculation to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

35. A program for identifying factor and/or index contributing to enterprise evaluation by causing a computer to execute:

a function of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring, for each of a plurality of enterprises,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a function of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a function of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J of each enterprise index in relation to said comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes and the comprehensive evaluation index; and

a function of output for outputting, industry by industry, each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

36. An enterprise evaluation method, comprising:

a step of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a step of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a step of factor analysis for extracting enterprise indexes by performing factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes;

a step of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J in relation to said comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index; and

a step of output for outputting said extracted each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof, and said comprehensive evaluation index to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

37. An enterprise evaluation method, comprising:

a step of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a step of factor analysis for creating a factor C by performing factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes, and calculating a factor score C for each enterprise; and

a step of output for outputting said factor scores C and enterprise names corresponding thereto in the order of said factor score C to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

38. An enterprise evaluation method, comprising:

a step of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a step of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a step of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J in relation to a comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index; and

a step of output for outputting each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof, and said comprehensive evaluation index to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

39. An enterprise evaluation method, comprising:

a step of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring, for a plurality of enterprises,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a step of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring, for each of said plurality of enterprises, a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a step of principal component analysis for calculating a principal component score of each enterprise by performing principal component analysis based on said enterprise indexes and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise;

a step of output for outputting said principal component score to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

40. The enterprise evaluation method according to claim 39, further comprising:

a step of factor analysis for extracting factors C by performing factor analysis using said enterprise indexes acquired by said step of enterprise index acquisition; and

a step of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J of each factor C in relation to the comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said factors C of each enterprise extracted by said step of factor analysis and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise acquired by said step of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition, and further selecting a factor J from said factors C based on said contribution ratio J;

wherein said step of principal component analysis is to perform the principal component analysis based on said enterprise indexes configuring the factor J selected by said step of contribution ratio calculation, and said comprehensive evaluation index.

41. A method for identifying factor and/or index contributing to enterprise evaluation, comprising:

a step of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring, for each of a plurality of enterprises, industry by industry,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a step of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring, for each of said plurality of enterprises, industry by industry, a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a step of factor analysis for extracting factors C by performing, industry by industry, factor analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes;

a step of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J of each factor C in relation to the comprehensive evaluation index by performing, industry by industry, multiple regression analysis using said factors C of each enterprise and said comprehensive evaluation index of each enterprise, and further selecting a factor J from said factors C based on said contribution ratio J; and

a step of output for outputting, industry by industry, said enterprise indexes configuring the factor J selected by said step of contribution ratio calculation to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.

42. A method for identifying factor and/or index contributing to enterprise evaluation, comprising:

a step of enterprise index acquisition for acquiring, for each of a plurality of enterprises,

(a) a management-finance related enterprise index including an enterprise investment related index such as capital investment amount and investment trend index;

or a management-finance analysis related index such as capital investment efficiency, labor productivity, total factor productivity, and cost to sales ratio;

(b) a research and development related enterprise index including a research and development related index such as research and development cost, the number of inventors, inventor ratio, and research and development cost per an inventor;

or a research and development efficiency related index such as research and development cost ratio, research and development efficiency, and patent application productivity; and

(c) an intellectual property related enterprise index including a patent application related index such as the number of patent applications, the number of claims filed, and the number of claims filed per an application;

an examination request related index such as the number of examination requests, average years before examination request, and examination request ratio;

a patent obtainment related index such as the number of patents granted, the number of claims granted, and the number of patents granted per an inventor;

a patent stock related index such as the total number of effective patents and total effective patent remaining ratio;

a patent concentration degree related index such as the number of claims filed share and patent concentration degree;

or a patent profitability related index;

a step of comprehensive evaluation index acquisition for acquiring a comprehensive evaluation index such as a profit related index such as sales volume, patent and other royalty income, and operating profit;

an excess profit related index such as excess value added amount and excess operating profit;

or a market evaluation related index such as expected intellectual property profit;

a step of contribution ratio calculation for calculating a contribution ratio J of each enterprise index in relation to said comprehensive evaluation index by performing multiple regression analysis using said acquired enterprise indexes and the comprehensive evaluation index; and

a step of output for outputting, industry by industry, each enterprise index and contribution ratio J thereof to display means, printing means, recording medium, or another telecommunications device via a communication line.