Inventor profile mining approach for prospective human resource scouting

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Highlights:

• An inventor profiling approach to identify prospective human resources is proposed.

• Topic modeling and bibliometric analysis are applied to large-scale patent data.

• Inventors are evaluated based on their invention field, performance, and career.

• The approach identifies young and talented inventors by firms’ technology strategy.

• The approach can support firms’ decision-making process for human resource scouting.

摘要

•An inventor profiling approach to identify prospective human resources is proposed.•Topic modeling and bibliometric analysis are applied to large-scale patent data.•Inventors are evaluated based on their invention field, performance, and career.•The approach identifies young and talented inventors by firms’ technology strategy.•The approach can support firms’ decision-making process for human resource scouting.

论文关键词:Inventor profile mining,Human resource,Scouting,Technology-based firm,Patent analysis

论文评审过程:Received 1 June 2020, Revised 31 August 2020, Accepted 30 September 2020, Available online 13 November 2020, Version of Record 13 November 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101103