Get a bigger, better view into new technologies, potential partnerships, and product innovation ideas. The pharmaceutical biotech industry faces rising demands to develop new bio-devices, limit adverse effects, and address patent expiration concerns. Through technology scouting and other innovation capabilities, pharmaceutical biotech 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:

• Exploring emerging technologies and approaches to innovate drug delivery processes and manufacturing approaches
• Gaining out-of-the-box insights from use cases of materials and processes in related industries that can be applied to product development and manufacturing
• Driving open innovation through finding scientific experts and identifying potential partners and licensors
• Keeping up with cutting-edge products and trends in current and adjacent markets such as generics, OTCs, and supplements

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.