There are 2 ways of locating Competive Landscape within Discovery.
Firstly, you can find it in the Company tab once you have performed a technology and competitive intelligence search.
Secondly, there is the "Competive Landscape" icon on the left-hand side of the page, which allows you to build your search from scratch and then take it to a Competitive Landscape.
Once you reach the Competive Landscape, you will come to a screen that looks like this:
Competitors are organized into the following groups where the list of results for each can be found by clicking the options at the top of the page:
- Key Players: Companies that are dominant in technology innovation with most patent filings, literature publications and frequently mentioned in market reports or news articles.
- Startups & Unicorns: Newly founded companies in the last 10 years, and contains disruptive technology.
- Fast-growing: Companies with remarkable innovation trends in the past five years with many patents filed.
- New entrants: Companies that have recently entered the corresponding technology field.
- Research institutions: Universities and research institutions which are dominant in scientic research with most patent filing, literature publications and citations.
For each of the groups, you will see a list of companies/institutions. You have the ability to sort the results and see a chart based on them. You can export these charts and choose to show names on them.
The list of categories you can sort the companies by using the drop-downs are as follows:
Key Players
- With Most Patent Filings will display the key players according to the total amount of patents per company
- With Highest Patent Value will display the key players according to the average patent value in the company
- With Most SEP Patents will display the key players according to the total amount of SEP patents per company
- With Most Patent Citation will display the key players according to which company has the most patents cited by other patents
- With Most Research Publications will display the key players according to the total amount of papers associated with each company
- With Most Literature Citation will display the key players according to which company has the most papers cited by other papers
- With Most Market Reports will display the key players according to the associated market with the most report count
- With Most News Heat will display the key players according to the associated news article count
Startups & Unicorns
- With Most Patent Filings will display the top start-ups and unicorns according to the total amount of patents per company
- With Highest Patent Value will display the top start-ups and unicorns according to the average patent value in the company
- With Most News Heat will display the top start-ups and unicorns according to the associated news article count
- With Most Market Reports will display the top start-ups and unicorns according to the associated market with the most report count
Fast growing
- Patent Filing Most in 5 years - the most patent filings in the last 5 years
- Patent Filing Most in 3 years - the most patent filings in the last 3 years
- Patent Filing Most in 1 year - the most patent filings in the last year
New entrants
- Patent Filing Most in 5 years - the most patent filings in the last 5 years
- Patent Filing Most in 3 years - the most patent filings in the last 3 years
- Patent Filing Most in 1 year - the most patent filings in the last year
Research institutions
- With Most Patent Filings will display the top research institutions according to the total amount of patents per institution
- With Highest Patent Value will display the top research institutions according to the average patent value for the institution
- With Most SEP Patents will display the top research institutions according to the total amount of SEP patents per institution
- With Most Patent Citation will display the top research institutions according to which institution has the most patents cited by other patents
- With Most Research Publications will display the top research institutions according to the total amount of papers associated
- With Most Literature Citation will display the top research institutions according to which institution has the most papers cited by other papers