Get a bigger, better view into new technologies, potential partnerships, and product innovation ideas. The automotive industry faces rising demands to increase vehicle reliability, safety, utility, and reduce environmental impact. Through technology scouting and other innovation capabilities, automotive companies can meet those demands – achieving long-term growth and staying ahead of the competition.

With advanced search technologies and an extensive content base, illumin8 enables users to assess innovation opportunities quickly at the early stages of product development – so organizations can make better product and technology investment decisions from the start.

Top challenges for the industry include:

• Reducing emissions and addressing changing customer lifestyles, such as the growing demand for individual and sustainable mobility and alternate fuels and energies
• Evolving with increasingly sophisticated wireless technologies and computer systems, such as telematics for building smarter cars and advanced ergonomics to enhance customers' driving experience
• Delivering against specs and regulations efficiently through new car manufacturing technologies and processes
• Leveraging expertise within and beyond the industry, such as increasing customer safety in vehicles using approaches and insights from Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Brain Research

Illumin8 is a web-based research tool designed for R&D and innovation professionals at the front-end of innovation. With advanced search technologies, it extracts and integrates insights from scientific journals published by Elsevier and 5,000+ publishers, 5 patent offices worldwide, and billions of web pages including 1,000+ business, technical, and trade news sources.

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

The EVALUATE section lets users better gauge whether it makes sense to pursue a technology or approach by high- lighting potential problems and benefits.

The COMPARE section lets users simultaneously assess two chosen topics based on trends in volumes of published records and relevant organi- zations, people, products, and approaches.

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.