Boosting innovation with systematic literature and patent searches

Starting a research? Innovating a product? Considering filing a patent? Speak to our experts first!

• Systematic literature review brings your research closer to success
• Systematic Literature Searches and Reviews
• The primary benefit of a thorough literature review is obvious - it allows you to assess current state of research on a topic before you start a research project. Furthermore, you will identify leading experts on the subject of your interest as well as key questions and issues that are yet to be answered or resolved in the research field. You will get a full picture to make evidence-based decisions in conducting your research projects.
• Comprehensive patent search helps you determine and defend your position in the market
• Patent searches
• We have to be honest with you. Even a team of experienced professionals in information sciences and literature and patent searching is not good enough for performing an outstanding patent search. Patent searching requires more. It requires expertise in the subject of concern. That's why we specialize. We perform patent searches only in chemistry, genetics, environmental sciences and related fields to make sure that we always understand the technicalities and specifics of your products and innovations. This allows us to provide you with top-quality complex patent search services including novelty search, state-of-the art search, patent collection search, infringement/non-infringement search, right to use, freedom to operate, clearance search or validity/invalidity search.

• Minimising costs while finding exactly what you are looking for is our primary goal in systematic literature reviews
• Tailored search strategies and choice of information sources
• Costs associated with access to information sources usually present the greatest expenditure in a systematic literature search and review. That's why our experts always pay special attention to setting an efficient search strategy and choosing the optimum set of information sources to minimise your costs. The expert team has an in-depth knowledge of major databases and search engines such as OvidSP, STN International, Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge and Web of Science, SCOPUS, SciFinder, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Google Scholar and many others, including databases of grey literature. To minimise costs, we usually start searching for the information you are looking for in publicly available sources. When it comes to getting access to paid articles and databases, we always consider cost-effective options such as pay-per-view access to articles and journals, lending scientific publications instead of purchasing them and access to databases and search engines on a pay-per-query basis. Of course, always after a thorough discussion with you.
• We are happy to share our know-how with you
• Trainings, consultancy and supervision
• Each researh field has its own specifics and we are well aware that we cannot have a deep knowledge and understanding of all scientific subjects. We understand, that it might be much better for you to "be taught how to fish" than to "get a fish". We are ready to provide you with professional trainings and consultancy, to set an efficient search strategy with you, develop a literature review methodology, quality control system and standardised protocols for your systematic literature searches to minimise bias and risk of errors.