Explore Trends and Opportunities

What is it?

The EXPLORE section of illumin8 organizes research results into people, organizations, products and more – giving you an overview of an opportunity space, as well as relationships you may not find with any other tool.

Why use it?
  • Get an overview of key topics and market entities related to your research topic
  • Quickly identify potential customers, partners, competitors, product solutions and experts
  • Understand trends in volume of published records for your research topic

Explore a technology in illumin8 by simply entering a technology, topic or problem here. You can add additional terms or exclude unwanted terms to refine and focus your results.

Research results are concepts or entities related to your topic, extracted from the various content sources that illumin8 indexes. Categories and sub-categories of results include organizations, products, people, approaches, and journal keywords.

Click on a result to read the associated snippets of text. From there, you can link directly to the full-text articles and source materials.

Visualize activity over time in Organizations, Products, People and Approaches so that you can immediately begin to spot trends in your area of research.

Evaluate Technologies and Methods

What is it?

The EVALUATE section of illumin8 highlights potential benefits and drawbacks related to a research topic, allowing users to easily assess a technology, product, process or other topic.

Why use it?
  • Better gauge which direction and ideas to pursue as you explore new product applications, technologies and related markets
  • Understand what can contribute to a potential problem or enable a new idea or process. For example, specific materials, scientific methods, or technology processes may drive up costs for product manufacturing, or allow for new uses of an existing technology
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When evaluating a technology or a market, use the Problems category to discover potential drawbacks and obstacles. From there, pinpoint the related causes that can contribute to those problems.

Use the Benefits category to understand current applications of a technology, and potentially point to new markets or uses.

Compare Organizations, People, Products, and Approaches

What is it?

The COMPARE section shows a side-by-side view of two research topics, allowing you to compare volume of published records, related products and approaches, organizations, and people.

Why use it?
  • Easily compare potential competitors, partners and existing products based on patent and journal activity over time
  • Simultaneously view related products and approaches, people and organizations for two research topics
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Use the Compare step to better assess a potential competitor, supplier or partner by viewing a side-by-side comparison of their journal and patent activity.

Comparing any two results will provide a view of their related Organizations, People, Products, and Approaches.

Report Findings and insights

What is it?

ILLUMIN8 REPORTS allow you to summarize and output your key findings into a customizable document that can be shared with your colleagues. The REPORT section lets you easily access and make changes to all your saved illumin8 Reports.

Why use it?
  • Easily create overviews of a technology, problem, competitor, or product
  • Build short lists and share insights about possible partners, suppliers and experts

Add your own summary and detailed notes to communicate critical points and provide context for your report's readers.

Build summary tables to highlight competitors, products, experts, potential partners or technologies. The report summarizes the volume of patent, journal, web and news records for each result.

Import Category Trend graphs from illumin8, to help visualize the volume of records over time for your research topic.

Share the most relevant records related to your research topic. Direct links to actual content sources are automatically incorporated into the document.