Augmenting Firm Diversification Behavior Prediction with Graph Embeddings

Abstract

Public procurement plays a crucial role in modern economies, serving not only as a mechanism to acquire public goods, services, and works, but also as a policy tool to foster innovation and development. This chapter uses graph embeddings and machine learning to predict firms’ competitiveness in securing contracts by activity sector, extending activity and technological diversification methods to public procurement markets.

Publication
In Complex Networks & Their Applications XIV, Studies in Computational Intelligence 1265, Springer
Cristian Candia
Cristian Candia
Associate Professor, Data Science Institute, School of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. Director of CRiSS-LAB.

Cristian Candia is a computational social scientist studying human and collective behavior with large-scale data, network science, experiments, and AI.

Flavio Pinheiro
Flavio Pinheiro
NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa