Get a bigger, better view into new technologies, potential partnerships, and product innovation ideas. The high tech industry faces rising demands to improve data and memory speed, reduce size, and deliver products at continually lower costs. Through technology scouting and other innovation capabilities, high tech 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:

• Keeping ahead of market trends through investing in capabilities that align with future process technologies, while driving adjacent market growth in areas such as photovoltaics, OLEDs, and in areas of healthcare such as bioinformatics
• Understanding emerging technologies and approaches within advanced materials such as graphene, and applying those insights towards product enhancements that address key technology constraints as defined by Moore's Law
• Delivering products to spec efficiently using the latest engineering manufacturing technologies, equipment, and materials
• Optimizing product development cycles to support frequent enhancements and increase speed to market
• Driving open innovation by finding scientific experts and identifying 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.