LibGuides: Innovation Info: Getting Started

Getting Started

Top databases for Innovation Info

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Sabi This link opens in a new window
MarketLine This link opens in a new window
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window

List of Innovative Companies

Forbes. The World's Most Innovative Companies
Investors vote the companies they expect to be innovative.
Fortune. World's Most Admired Companies
Fortune's annual playlist of upstarts changing the game.
Fast Company. The World's Most Innovative Companies
FC annual guide to the state of innovation in our economy, featuring the businesses whose innovations are having the greatest impacts across their industries and our culture as a whole.
BCG. The Most Innovative Companies
Each year, they assess the current state of the art in corporate innovation and examine how the most innovative companies are reshaping, directing, organizing, and fueling their innovation engines.
Clarivate Derwent. Top 100 Global Innovators
The annual Clarivate Analytics Top 100 Global Innovators showcasing the world's 100 most innovative organizations.
PWC. The Global Innovation 1000 Study
World's 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders, focusing on how those R&D funds are invested in capabilities, talent, process, and tools.

Startups Lists

Fortune The Unicorn List
The Fortune billion-dollar technology startup list.
CBInsights The Unicorn List
List of Unicorn companies.
CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboard
Unicorn statistics and interactive visualizations.
First time users must register.
Forbes - Next Billion Dollar Startups List
Top 100 Overview: Exciting Startups / Prestigious Recognition
Red Herring
Startup ranking
Discover, rank and prospect startups worldwide.
Startup lists
Collections of the best startups in different places.

Industry Research

MarketLine This link opens in a new window

Company, industry, financial, and country information extending across every major marketplace worldwide.

Passport This link opens in a new window

Full text reports (compiled by analysts at Euromonitor) and statistics for international consumer markets.

Factiva This link opens in a new window

("Switch Factiva” and go to the previous interface.)
Choose Companies/Markets > Industry.

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window

Limit by "Industry Profile" under "Publication Type" and access industry reports from several analysts.

Innovation Books

Discovery - Innovation
Find books and e-books. (Also articles).

For books, select “Books”, type your search terms (by author, title, subject) and SEARCH. Details of printed books in IESE Library.

For e-books, limit your results by Show only> Available online. You can find subscribed books from different providers including EBSCO, Springer and Elsevier, as well as different e-books available for free.

News & Articles on Innovative Companies

Factiva This link opens in a new window

Find news and articles: innovation, innovative companies, etc.

Major business news sources & newswires such as Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fast Company, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Business Source Ultimate - Innovation
Contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting.

Discovery This link opens in a new window

Find articles, books and more: innovation, innovative companies, etc.

Innovation Info