An Initial Study of Relationships among the R&D Productivities of Patent Inventors in Patent, Academic Achievement and Professional Performances - An Example of Pixar Animation Studies
Department of Information Communication, Shih Hsin University 世新大學資訊傳播學系
Sung-Chien Lin 林頌堅
Department of Information Communication, Shih Hsin University 世新大學資訊傳播學系
Abstract
Patent information is seen to be a kind of information with the features of exactitude and trustfulness, and it can be used as an indicator to measure the capability of research and development in a company. This research initially explores
the relationships among the R&D productivities of patent inventors in patents, academic achievements and professional performances in terms of a patent production aspect. Our research object is the Pixar Company, which had been devoted
to 3D animation production for a long time and become one of the key players in the industry. This paper presents a study to discover the technical human resource in the company based on inventor analyses from patent information. Three
problems were addressed as follows: (1) Pixar’s key inventors and their active periods, (2) the collaboration among these inventors, and (3) their academic achievements and professional performances and then examined their relationships
among the patents, academic achievements and professional performances. In the study, we produced a graph to depict the collaboration of patent inventors when they cooperated to develop technologies and applied patents, and finally
we integrated the graph with the search results from the ACM database and the IMDB databases to synthesize another graph to demonstrate the relationships among the productivities of key patent inventors in patents, academic achievements
and professional performances. The findings show that in the digital content industry the performances of patent producing of technical talents principally come from the accumulation of their academic ability. When they applied the
knowledge and the competence to the industry, they not only achieved remarkable success but also gained confirmation from international awards. Finally, the study also approved the potential and the feasibility of applying knowledge
and techniques of bibliometrics to industrial analysis.
