Data Coverage Summary
- Companies
- Grants
- VC Investments
- Patents
- Literature
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Experts
- News
- Research funding
- Market reports
AI-Driven Data Deep Processing
PatSnap has several years experience on proficient deep plowing ability for big data platforms and artificial intelligence technology and has been able to build a connection between data and information, analysis and insights by deep data processing.
Discovery can also help users analyze data and explore new business development opportunities by deeply extracting the valuable information in the relational dataset.
Data Type Overview
Discovery has five main data types: Company, Research institute and university, Scientific literature, Finance and Marketing.
The detailed data information on Company, Scientific literature, Patent, Finance and Marketing are displayed in the figure below.
Knowledge Map
A multi-dimensional knowledge map is formed based on the interconnections between various data types, it helps you glean meaningful information and business trend.
Data Coverage Summary
Companies
The Discovery platform holds a strong global company dataset. We have incorporated the leading databases for finding business information about private and public companies into one. When exploring companies in Discovery, you get access to industry intelligence, patent analysis, financial performance, competitors, emerging players, and more.
Our sources for company data are Crunchbase and FactSet and these are updated on a daily and weekly basis respectively.
Company profiles within Discovery include a Snapshot tab where basic information and a summary of the company is displayed.
- All companies listed in Crunchbase and FactSet can be found in Discovery.
- The descriptions are taken from these sources and from the companies' websites.
- Basic information such as founded year, number of employees and headquarters have been extracted from both these sources.
- We use AI and NLP to tag technical topics related to a company.
- NAICS industrial classification codes have also been tagged to each company, the industries listed with an asterisk have been powered by our own industry classification model.
Grants
Government grants offer a signal into where government interest is going, and where companies are winning and obtaining these grants. From a competitive analysis perspective, this can be useful to see what technology areas companies are investing in.
Here are our sources along with their update frequencies for grants:
- SAM.gov
- GOV.UK Contracts Finder
- GRANTS.GOV
- MERX
- National Science Foundation
- SBIR
- TED Tenders Electronic Daily
You can access this data through a list view where you can filter down the results to your needs. We have extracted data fields such as the published date, amount, closed date, status, award to, award by and location.
VC Investments
Financing provided by investors to start-up organizations or small businesses to drive growth. VC data can help you understand if the investment trend is increasing or going down, and to identify the key investors that are choosing to fund in your area of interest.
Our source for VC investment data is Crunchbase, which is updated on a daily basis.
For the data that most closely matches the keyword(s) searched, you can view the trend over time for the number of deals and total amount.
You can access this data through a list view where you can filter down the results to your needs. We have extracted data fields such as the amount, series round and funded company size.
Investment data in Discovery has been linked to the appropriate company profile, each company has their own analysis and trending on funding rounds, funding history, related news, series round and more.
Patents
Patents allow you to understand the innovation strategy of your competitors, partners or acquisition targets. The patents filed today are the products of tomorrow, and Discovery allows you to see a visual representation of a technology space's main patents, or an entity's filing strategy.
We currently have over 173 million patents from 158 jurisdictions. Discovery's patent data comes from our Analytics platform which is sourced from the various patent offices around the world. If you have an Analytics license, then you can see our exact data coverage for patents here: https://analytics.patsnap.com/status.
Companies often file patents under variations of their name, presented in Discovery as linked assignees. Companies often file under the names of subsidiaries they control, we provide an option to include subsidiaries in analysis performed on this company.
Patent data in Discovery has been linked to the appropriate company profile, each company has their own analysis and trends on portfolio size, value, filing strategy, emerging technologies, litigation, licensing and more.
You can access this data through a list view where you can filter down the results to your needs. We have extracted data fields such as the application and publication date, current assignee, authority, legal status, IPC code, and more.
Literature
What is happening in an industry will be published in scientific publications before even a patent is applied for. Following scientific publications will help identify partners, understand future trends in the industry and make informed R&D decisions while staying ahead of the curve.
Discovery's academic paper coverage includes over 140 million papers from approximately 50,000 journals. We get this data from CrossRef, which is updated on a monthly basis. You can see a list of the top journals here.
For the data that most closely matches the keyword(s) searched, you can view trend over time for the number of papers published.
You can access this data through a list view, where you can filter results down to your needs. We have extracted data fields such as the published date, journal name, institution, top authors, number of citations and more. We use AI and NLP to tag technical topics related to each paper.
Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A data can help you understand trends in your industry. Seeing which companies your competitors are acquiring can help you understand how they are diversifying into new markets by buying start-ups or seeking to grow their market share by buying or merging with competitors.
We combine Crunchbase and FactSet to incorporate over 800,000 M&A events, bringing the most accurate, reliable, and complete data. These are updated on a daily and weekly basis respectively.
Finding out the structure for a company is important for multiple reasons, such as to find out their subsidiaries, which may operate in a specific technology area or if they have performed any M&A as well. You can do this within Discovery by clicking on the Corporate Tree from the profile page of a company.
Discovery has linked M&A events to the appropriate company profile, each company has their own analysis and trends on top industries, trend overview, event news, acquisition timeline, deal types, and more.
Experts
Data on individuals can help you identify expertise that you may want to partner with or recruit. Discovery can also help you see the relationships between the individuals, institutions, companies, topics, and research they've published. The movement of people between organizations may also indicate a new venture, or strategic direction of a competitor.
Using large scale entity linking, we have extracted over 350 million unique academic authors from around 50,000 journals and 4,500 conferences. This data is updated quarterly.
For the data that most closely matches the keyword(s) searched, you can access a list view to filter down the results to your needs. We have extracted data fields such as the expert name, number of publications, number of citations, institutions, journal name, and more. We use AI and NLP to tag technical topics related to each report.
You can view an individual expert's profile, where we have extracted data such as number of publications and citations.
News
The Discovery platform has aggregated selected news sources to stay up to date with the headlines that concern your technology areas of interest and / or competitors, partners etc. This allows you to stay up to date with the latest trends and events in your industry and stay ahead of the curve, while making R&D decisions.
Discovery sources 25 million news articles from hundreds of sources across a multitude of relevant industries.
Research funding
Research funding offers a strong signal into what the technology may look like in five to ten years. It also provides a way to see what institutions are working on, their areas of expertise, and the individual experts involved in those areas.
Discovery sources over 2 million from the 5 sources listed below. The sources are predominantly research and development information services that bring research results to professionals in the field to foster open science, create innovative products and services to stimulate growth.
You can access this data through a list view where you can filter down the results to your needs. We have extracted data fields, such as the open date, close date, location, awarded to, awarded by, amount, and more.
Market reports
Market reports allow you to understand the overall market situation of a product or a group of products and services. It reflects the market situation of a product or service in terms of its price, demand, supply, volume of transactions, market structure trend and so on.
Discovery sources over 700,000 market reports, analyzed from over 800 industries. The data includes market insights and analysis to enable intelligent decision-making.
Discovery has a market browser function where you will be able to easily search and find reports from hundreds of thousands of market reports categorized for you.
Discovery gives you information on the companies involved in a market category. You will be able to see the distribution of both the location and age of top companies that operate in a sector, these can be filtered using various refinement options.
Discovery provides you with specific information regarding the market reports for a category. You can see the fastest growing and dominant market sectors within a category. Below that, you can view a list of market reports for a sector which can be filtered using various refinement options.
