Thomson Innovation now has a robust collection of business and news information, which provides the most complete resource for prior art and competitive intelligence research. Users can simultaneously search three critical content sets – patent data, scientific literature and business and news information. The new business and news information is the perfect compliment to the editorially-enhanced patent data and scientific literature already available through Thomson Innovation. Now users can monitor competitive activity, identify potential licensing opportunity and see how market factors can impact the development of new technology. In addition, the three content sets in Thomson Innovation – patent data, scientific literature, and business and news information – share common functionality, including alerts work files and multi-color highlighting.

New Business and News Content Supports Business Development Decisions
The extensive collection of business and news content in Thomson Innovation includes:

• News – A comprehensive collection of more than 11,000 of the world’s leading sources from the Dialog NewsRoom database. Use this news to closely monitor industry developments and information about new technologies and other strategic information.

• Product – Information about ownership of products and coverage of press releases relating to product launches and other relevant news to support product design and development, competitive analysis, marketing and business planning.

• Company – Business intelligence information allows organizations to monitor competitive activity in a particular industry. This company information can be used to view a corporation’s family hierarchy or find the address and executive information for a particular business.

• Market – International market information for 90 industries published weekly, covering market share, rankings, forecasts, time series, shipments, and demographics information in a tabular format. 

 • Research – Detailed information on more than 30,000 organizations supporting and conducting research worldwide can be used to locate experts in a specific field of research, identify potential partners for cooperative research and identify potential marketing contacts.

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