Dr. Moon Young-ho and KISTI researchers visited VAST(Vietnam Academy of Science and

Technology) on March.16th in Hanoi and had a meeting with Prof.Dr.Sc.Duong Ngoc Hai, Vice President of VAST and some of representatives of VAST institutes.

During the meeting, Dr.Lee Hyuck-jai has introduced COMPAS to VAST and discussed the way

of technology consulting and transfer of COMPAS system. COMPAS is developed by KISTI and is

suitable software for analyzing competitive information for SMEs who want to devlep new product

and want to know of their competitors.

COMPAS is an on-line analysis service which is intended to help firs make information decisions by providing means to analyze the comptitive environment-often represented by the vast amount of the intellectual peroperties such as patents, journal articles, and traading statistics.

User can condut rapid and in-depth analysis on the most frequently asked MOT(Managment of Technology) questions of targeted technological areas by following the simple and easy steps in

COMPAS.

Dr. Moon and and Dr.Duong, Vice President  of KISTI and VAST have agreed to conduct joint R&D project first before introducing COMPAS system to Vietnam. KISTI and ISI ,IOIT of Vietnam will discuss follow-up actions in near future.