WHAT IS ILLUMIN8?

illumin8 is a powerful research tool that provides innovation and R&D professionals with actionable insights from scientific, patent, web and news content—resulting in more confident decisions during the early stages of innovation.


SPEND LESS TIME.

  • Organizing content and figuring out what relates to what
  • Stressing about insights and data that you may have overlooked
  • Weeding out irrelevant data
SPEND MORE TIME.

  • Discovering new technologies
  • Uncovering new applications and markets for existing technologies
  • Assessing leading experts, competitors, and partners

 

illumin8's unique benefits are made possible through a combination of user features, specialized technology and content:

  • Specially designed user interface that is based on customer feedback about what insights are valuable as they explore new technologies, products and related markets:

    The EXPLORE section lets users quickly see the “who, what and how” of an opportunity space through categorized results and interactive data charts. See how it works.

    The EVALUATE section lets users better gauge whether it makes sense to pursue a technology or approach by highlighting potential problems and benefits. See how it works.

    The COMPARE section lets users simultaneously assess two chosen topics based on trends in volumes of published records, and relevant organizations, people, products and approaches. See how it works.

    The REPORT section includes illumin8 Reports that are customizable documents that you can generate to summarize and share your key findings and analysis of your research topics. See how it works.

  • A trusted content base for keeping up with the latest science and technology developments:
    • NEWS & WEB: Billions of web pages, including more than 1,000 online business, technical, and trade news sources that are updated daily
    • JOURNALS AND ABSTRACTS: 5 Million+ scientific and technical articles from 1,800 Elsevier journals, and 40 Million+ scientific records from Elsevier and 5,000+ publishers
    • PATENTS: 24 million+ patents from 5 patent offices worldwide (WIPO, US, European, UK and Japan)
  • The ability to set up ALERTS for whenever new content that matches your research topic becomes available.
  • A web-based interface that lets you and your team access the insights you need, with no software installation required

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