Frequently Asked Questions about Stakeholder Mapping

• Why do I need to add actors to the stakeholder mapping?

  Adding stakeholders to a segment, provides a higher level of granularity to the stakeholder mapping, it provides concrete faces to a segment. By adding concrete actors, you will experience a more complete view and more support of the tooling in suggesting relevant actors and providing interesting news.

• When is the mapping complete?

  The mapping is complete when you are meeting your research goals and your aree able to validate the key assumptions. When conducting a market scan, you might only want to add one or two very concrete stakeholders. When you develop the innovation landscape, you might want to be as exhaustive as possible.

• What information sources are used for the actor profiling?

  DataScouts uses a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources incl.

  • Company Directors like KVK, KBO

  • Startups Directors like Crunchbase, Seedtable

  • Patent registries like Netscape

  • Funding databases like CORDIS

  • Data from the company website

• Is DataScouts scraping infromation?

  Yes, DataScouts is gathering publicly available data fromt he company website in order to provide a complete actor profile incl.

  • accurate description

  • company contact details

  • social media handles