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.

用特定于公司的领域知识来发掘年轻而有才华的人力资源对基于技术的公司的业绩和可持续增长具有重大影响。先前的研究提出了关键的研究人员识别和推荐方法，但是很少有研究专注于识别潜在的人力资源-适合公司技术战略的年轻人才。因此，这项研究提出了一种发明人档案挖掘方法来识别这种人力资源。提出的方法如下：1）收集与目标公司有关的专利数据并预处理候选发明人的专利；2）确定发明人的技术领域并衡量其发明业绩和职业；3）为发明领域生成绩效职业组合图，以识别与目标公司的技术发展方向保持一致的潜在发明者。我们表明，这种方法可以通过案例研究和统计验证来确定潜在的发明者。预期该方法将被基于技术的公司用作人力资源管理工具，以帮助他们确定和发掘最适合技术策略的年轻人才。