Inventor profile mining approach for prospective human resource scouting

Jaemin Chung, Namuk Ko, Hyeonsu Kim and Janghyeok Yoon

Journal of Informetrics, 2021, vol. 15, issue 1

Abstract: Scouting young and talented human resources with firm-specific domain knowledge has a great impact on performance and sustainable growth among technology-based firms. Previous studies have proposed key researcher identification and recommendation approaches, but few studies have focused on identifying prospective human resources—young and talented people suitable for a firm’s technology strategy. Thus, this study proposes an inventor profile mining approach for identifying such human resources. The proposed approach is as follows: 1) collecting patent data related to a target firm and preprocessing candidate inventors’ patents; 2) identifying the inventors’ technology fields and measuring their invention performance and career; 3) generating performance-career portfolio maps for invention fields to identify prospective inventors aligned with the target firm’s technology development directions. We show that this approach can identify prospective inventors through a case study and statistical validation. This approach is expected to be used as a human resources management tool by technology-based firms to help them identify and scout young and talented human resources the most suitable for technology strategies.

Keywords: Inventor profile mining; Human resource; Scouting; Technology-based firm; Patent analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2020.101103

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