News Sources
Bloomberg.com
Global business and market news and insights on economics, geopolitical risk, finance, industries, and technology to contextualize tough-tech commercialization and funding dynamics.
Gartner
Provides technology-focused, in-depth news, analysis, trends, and leading practices.
IEEE Spectrum
Delivering analysis, updates, and expert commentary on groundbreaking technologies that address complex challenges across various industries, from advancements in aerospace, materials, and clean energy to innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence.
MIT Technology Review
Renowned for its rigorous analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on society, it offers a blend of news, research, and expert commentary.
The Information
A leading source for technology reporting, covering major tech companies, startups, and industry trends. It provides subscribers with exclusive insights and analysis.
Intellectual property: Strategies
PatentSight
A powerful patent analytics solution that provides ready-to-use, visualized results from dataset retrievals. These provide insights into competitive market intentions, current and historical R&D strategies, strategic partnerships, and technology portfolio advantages. Tips:
Two Related Help articles linked at the bottom of this page can help first-time users work more efficiently with the database.
Use the AI-powered insight generation tool to complement your own analysis.
Pitchbook
In addition to providing private capital info, also provides access to patent data for companies within its coverage, allowing users to view and analyze intellectual property information directly in the company profiles.
Investment: Deals, Models, Trends
Preqin
Provides data on alternative assets, such as private equity, venture capital, private debt, and hedge funds. It covers the entire investment lifecycle, offering insights on investors, fund managers, performance, deals, and market trends.
LSEG Workspace
Provides analyst reports at company and industry level, including sell-side equity research. Tip: see Baker Library's help center materials on how to search in LSEG Workspace.
PitchBook
A good starting point for early stage/private company profiles & valuation, and reports on emerging industries/verticals.
Global and Local Market Analysis
Technavio
Provides global market analysis on various industries and technologies, such as technologies in aerospace/defense, agriculture, energy and energy storage, and life science technologies.
Frost & Sullivan
Provides market analysis with growth opportunities on industries/technologies. Tends to focus on leading/advanced technologies, emerging technologies, sustainability, and high-growth sectors across various industries.
IEEE Xplore
Provides a broad spectrum of subjects and hosts proceedings from conferences focused on leading advanced technologies in engineering, covering a wide range of tough tech topics.
Tough Tech Business: Articles
ABI/ProQuest
Articles on various business and management topics from industry and academic publications. Sample search:
summary("deep tech*" OR "tough tech" OR "advanced tech*") AND subject(financing OR investment OR model* OR strateg* OR challenge* OR issues OR trend*)
Additional limits - Date: last 3 years.
ScienceDirect
Studies and reviews from academic and industry publications, book chapters, and more. Sample search:
Use Advanced Search > find the search field of Title, abstract or author-specified keywords > type in "deep tech" OR "tough tech" OR "advanced technology" > click Search
You can then use the filters in the left collumn of the search result page to refine the search.
Google Scholar
Articles on tough tech or deep tech related topics. Sample search strategy:
deep tech business models OR tough tech commercializ* OR advanced tech value chain OR (intitle:"business model" AND "deep tech")
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