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    Patent Collaboration and Team Formation


    Keane, Peter (2020) Patent Collaboration and Team Formation. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

    Abstract

    The team formation problem has existed for many years in various guises. One important problem in the team formation problem is to produce small teams that have a required set of skills. We propose a framework that incorporates machine learning to predict unobserved links between collaborators, alongside Steiner tree problem solutions to form small teams to cover given tasks. Our framework not only considers size of the team but also how likely team members are to collaborate with each other. The framework is tested on sets of data from two different companies. The results show that this model consistently returns smaller collaborative teams.
    Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
    Keywords: Patent Collaboration; Team Formation;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
    Item ID: 13608
    Depositing User: IR eTheses
    Date Deposited: 17 Nov 2020 14:40
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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