Identifying the Innovative Potential of New Ideas

Fraunhofer INT

Here we present an approach for automatically extracting innovative technological ideas from textual information. Therefore we firstly define characteristics of innovative ideas, we secondly extract ideas from textual information using the idea mining approach and we thirdly analyse these extracted ideas concerning the characteristics of innovative ideas.

We present our approach on IFCS 2009 conference in the field of text mining, text classification or knowledge discovery of texts (KDT):
Dirk Thorleuchter, Dirk Van den Poel and Anita Prinzie, Mining Innovative Ideas to Support new Product Research and Development. In: Hermann Locarek-Junge, Claus Weihs (editors): 'Classification as a Tool for Research' - Proceedings of the 11th IFCS Biennial Conference and 33rd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., Dresden, March 13-18, 2009 Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York (to appear).

Here we demonstrate our first prototype application 'Mining Ideas for Technological Innovation' based on this approach.

Mining innovative ideas