Industry Chain Mining for Enterprises

I、Introduction

In the past 10 years, the emergence of various kinds of e-commerce and TOC platforms have provided great momentum for social development and new forms of consumption. However, due to resource and geographical limitations, small and medium-sized enterprises lack platform support in terms of purchasing of necessary raw materials and products or services selling in the process of operation and development. Even Alibaba, JD. COM and other giants focus on connecting enterprises and consumers only.
In the process of development, each industry has its own characteristics. Upstream, middle stream and downstream in an industry exist separately, and their identities can be switched. Based on the data involved in all aspects of enterprise production and operation, we hope participants make the industrial chain profile of enterprises through analysis, mining and model design in combination with the industrial characteristics, so as to provide a platform with efficient industrial chain integration ability for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Requirements
The organizing committee provides datasets from over ten thousand enterprises with 7 major dimensions and 59 small categories, involving corporate intellectual property, investment and financing, news, judicial judgments, etc.. Participants are required to select a specific industry, sort out the middle and downstream part of this industry chain. After analyzing and mining data, models are required to be designed to position or make profile of the company in one or more industrial chains.

Data Introduction
1. In this section, the relevant datasets are provided by the organizing committee. Participants are encouraged to refer to other public data resources as well to designing innovative project.
2. All data have been sampled and desensitized to protect privacy of users and data security.
3. Involving sensitive data, the reference data is allowed to be used in this competition only. Any data leakage or usage for other purposes is strictly prohibited. 

II、Competition Rules

III、Review Methods

The contest observes a principle of being fair, equitable and open and strictly abides by the review procedures. It follows standard operations to ensure the objectivity and authenticity of the review results.
Rules of review
    1. The review board holds the final say and legal binding effect;
    2. Preliminary and semi-final contests: At least five experts shall be involved in review for each project. 
    3. Final contest: At least nine experts shall be involved in review for each project.
Requirements for review
1. Review board: The expert team for review can comprise university or college professors, scholars from scientific research institutions, industry experts, investors from venture investment institutions, persons in charge of listed companies, financial experts and management experts. 
2. Filing of review experts: All experts engaged in review for the contest shall file their profiles for record to the contest organizing committee, including name, age, gender, organization, position, contact information, qualification and certificates of honor and background introduction. 
3. Archiving of review documents: The review scoring sheet shall include the reviewer’s signature and review comments.  
4. Review method: Contesting projects are scored by scoring sheets, with a full credit of 100 points. Each reviewer scores the project separately. After all scoring sheets are ready, the highest and the lowest scores are removed and the weighted average of the rest scores is the final score of the contestant. 
5. Review dimensions and weights
● Technology, algorithm and product (25 points) 
● Innovativeness points and implementation scheme (30 points) 
● Project value and feasibility (20 points) 
● Industry and market significance (10 points) 
● Data analysis results(5 points) 
● Team performance (5 points) 
● Financial performance (5 points) 
Total: 100 points 
About scoring items：
        (1) Technology, product and algorithm: Descriptions of product development and production strategies, industry characteristics, focus of competition, major algorithm, technical indicators and key technologies which primarily involve the technology, product and background, as well as the current progress.
        (2) Innovative points and implementation scheme: Innovative points of the project or product, the prospective marketing strategies of the project or product, product profit models, and whether there is a detailed implementation plan in place.
        (3) Industry and market significance: Market positioning and demand analysis, industry history and outlook, rationality of the marketing positioning, forecast of the future market sales, technical barriers to the industry, trade barriers and policy restrictions. 
        (4) Project value and feasibility: Commercial value, social value and positive influence of the project; feasibility.
        (5) Data analysis results: Data analysis method, analysis result description, self-obtained data description (if any).
        (6) Team performance: Composition of the core team, and whether the background, qualification and expertise of the team members are capable of supporting the whole project throughout the R&D and innovation.
        (7) Financial performance: Demonstration of the history and prospective financial performance of the company, demonstration of the expected financial performance of the team, whether there is a financial barrier, and capital usage details including fixed asset investment, ongoing construction, R&D investment and management fees.  
        (8). Review scoring basis: Experts will focus on the submitted project proposals and refer to the review dimensions to single out outstanding teams.