Competitive Intelligence

Overview

CambridgeIP's competitive intelligence offering helps benchmark your company, partners or clients to key competitors, as well as identify prospective acquisitions, potential partners and licensing-out targets.

Key features and benefits include:

• Global coverage of science literature: Information sourced from public sources, experts in the industry and commercial data providers, including the 100 million scientific documents in Boliven.com and other proprietary databases
• Repeatable, efficient & very effective: Bespoke database driven analysis and custom reporting highlighting eg. who the competitors are, where they are located, when they became active and who they are partnering with. Our approach is synergistic with 'crowdsourcing' approaches, however we regularly out-perform 'crowdsourcing' options to intelligence gathering.

Featured Publication

First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) - A Focus on the Technology Fundamentals - Patent-evidenced Analysis of First Solar's Competitive Position, R&D Focus and IP Strategy in the Solar PV industry.

This report details the technology fundamentals of First Solar Inc., revealing insights into its competitive position, R&D focus and IP strategy and is available for purchase through CambridgeIP’s Knowledge and Innovation platform Boliven.com and through Bloomberg’s Premium Research and Data Platform BMART. What you can find in this report:

- Comprehensive review of the patent and technology portfolio of First Solar, a leading company in the Solar PV industry
- Insight into First Solar's emerging product strategy and evolving collaborations and licensing partnerships
- Detailed geographical analysis of First Solar's patent portfolio
- Examination of key patents in the CdTe technology space owned by First Solar and other companies
- Strategic investment implications based on expert reviewed market and technology developments of First Solar

For a more details on the report about the content, datasets and selected findings please see Boliven.com.

Our clients use these to:

• Glean information on top corporate, university and governmental partner/acquisition candidates operating in areas of interest, informing strategic business options on how to best leverage your technologies.
• Inform Freedom to Operate (FTO) status and technology White Space analyses.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of patent portfolios, the evolution of R&D within your technology space, and a comprehensive understanding of the technology value chain