Method of Providing SME-Friendly Patent Recommendation Service in Korea

Due to the interests of SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) in identifying emerging items, there has been an increase in demand for information regarding markets and progress on current technology. However, it is not easy to obtain both necessary and valuable information in the sea of information. This is even more so for SMEs that do not have enough funds and human resources. This study aims to suggest an SME-friendly patent recommendation service based on the result of R&D information demand analysis of technologically innovative enterprises in order to support SMEs for R&D.The mapping information between ‘Commodity classification’ and the ‘National Science and Technology Standard Classification Systems’, which is major product information of enterprises was used to design how to automatically find out patents matching with SMEs.