A developing speed
estimation apparatus includes: bibliographic
database integrating heterogeneous resources; feature-set creation module calculating feature values of predefined features by searching the bibliographic
database, and creating a feature-set of each technology using the feature values, for technologies on technology lifecycle; answer feature-set creation module calculating common feature values of feature sets of technologies belonging to the same stage in the technology lifecycle and creating answer feature-set of each stage; year-specific
stage determination module that, if specific technology is inputted, acquires feature-related information for predetermined features by searching the bibliographic
database for the specific technology, creates year-specific feature-set using the feature-related information, and determines year-specific stage of the specific technology by comparing the year-specific feature-set with the answer feature-set; and developing-speed
estimation module estimating the developing speed of the specific technology using the year-specific stage.