Industry and
Company
Information
Kho Su Yian
Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library
• Why We Need Data
• The Search Process
• Exercise
• Presentation
•Q&A
Agenda
Feasibility:
The “sweet spot” Your solution Technological,
of innovation is Environmental
where your
solution is at the
convergence of
Feasibility,
Viability: Desirability:
Viability and Economic Social,
Desirability (Industry) Legal/Political
Source: https://www.ideou.com/pages/design-thinking
Data: Macro to Micro
• Are you familiar with:
– FindMore @NUSL
– Find It! @ NUS Libraries in Databases
– Find It ! @ NUS Libraries in Google Scholar
– Proxy Bookmarklet
– Boolean Logic (And, Or, Not)
Time Saving Tools
Using AND
Java island
Green beans
Java Java
Beans Beans
String beans
Javascript
Soya beans
Using NOT
Cleaning services
Dry climate
Carpet cleaning
Cleaning Dry
cleaning Dry
Dry ice
Home cleaning
Dry eye
Using OR
Older workers
Senior citizens
Senior workers
Older Older
Seniors Senior
Older generation
Senior management
Older people
Always place brackets around the terms you have used the OR operator on:
Benefits and (employee* or staff or worker*)
Benefits and employee* or staff or worker*
Using “OR”
• Manag* will help you search:
– Manage
– Managing
– Management
– Managerial
– Managers
– Etc….
• Be judicious in your use of truncation. E.g. car* will get you car and
cars, but also cards, carrier, carts, care etc…
Truncation (or Wildcard)
Desirability Feasibility Viability
Databases Social Political Technology Environment Economics
ABI/Inform Yes No Yes Limited Yes
Business Source Premier Yes Limited Yes Yes Yes
Factiva Yes Yes Yes Limited Yes
Frost & Sullivan No No Yes Limited Yes
Gartner No No Yes Limited Yes
Passport Yes Limited No No Yes
Patsnap No No Yes No Yes
List of Useful Databases: nus.edu/32Jp8mJ
Database Matrix
Business Source
D&B Hoover’s Orbis
Premier
• Company • Financials & • Financials (Up to
Profiles Some Industry 10yrs)
• SWOT Analyses reports • Listed & Private
• USA-centric • Global Coverage Company Data
• Corporate Family • Global Coverage
Tree
Company Databases
Company Data: Patents
• Find out which companies are involved in
similar research by looking at patent
assignees.
• Searching for patents is also essential to
research, as you do not wish to unknowingly
infringe on an active patent.
Quick Comparison of 3 Patent Databases
Patsnap The Lens Google Patents
Coverage (information Over 130 million patent publications + Over 117 million documents Over 120 million patent
from their websites) DocDB (covers nearly 100 jurisdictions) Bibliographic publications from 100+ patent
DocDB (covers nearly 100 offices
jurisdictions)
Full Text and Images
US, EP, WIPO PCT, Australia
Semantic Search or Yes (by publication number or text with at No No separate search option
similar functions least 2000 characters). Retrieved up to 1000
relevant documents. Document level – have “Find Prior
Document level – “Similar Patents” Function Art” or “Similar” Functions
Scholarly Works (found Listed but not hyperlinked in patent Start search either by patents or - Can includes NPL from Google
in patents document) / documents (citations) scholarly works. Scholar at searching screen
Non Patent Literature Scholarly data from PubMed, - Includes a copy of the technical
(NPL) CrossRef, Microsoft Academic documents and books indexed in
Scholarly works that found in Google Scholar and Google Books
Lens.org are hyperlinked. - Listed but not hyperlinked in
patent documents (citations)
Landscape Maps Yes No No
Patent Analysis Yes Yes Yes
Patsnap - Overview : 7 options e.g.
Application Trends, Top Assignee(s) with Display “Graphical Analysis”: up Display 3 options: (assignee,
further subtopics to 10 options e.g. Top 10 inventors, CPCs) e.g. top assignees
Patsnap Insights – Company and Technology inventors
Dashboards, each with breakdown by
subtopics 16
The information Identify
search process is a keywords
reiterative one; from
initial results, you can
find new keywords, Select
Analyse
broaden or narrow Results
Information
Source
your search, and
select new
information sources
Construct
Search
Phrase
Search Process
Start your research here
• FindMore@NUSL – overview
of library materials, including
books, journal articles and
multimedia
• Databases – 300+ available
• Research Help – guides,
citation styles
Library Portal (www.lib.nus.edu.sg)
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• For more suggestions for databases/data sources
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