Get a bigger, better view into new technologies, potential partnerships, and product innovation ideas. The chemical industry faces rising demands to develop new compounds, improve effectiveness, and discover new product applications. Through technology scouting and other innovation capabilities, chemical 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:

• Evaluating reactants and feedstocks, and finding ways to procure and safely handle them
• Optimizing processes by identifying and exploring the latest innovative reaction, separation, and scale-up process technologies
• Developing products by researching new compounds and materials, and enhancing the functionality of existing products
• Exploring applications by evaluating potential product uses and emerging consumer technology spaces
• Driving open innovation through technical intelligence necessary to assess competitors, find scientific experts, and identify potential partners and licensors

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.