This guide supports UCI’s innovation and entrepreneurship community by connecting users to relevant resources used to conduct research throughout the entrepreneurial process. URL:https://guides.lib.uci.edu/entrepreneurship
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Analysis and insights across a broad range of IT areas. Research Reports include industry news, statistics, and forecasts. "Playbooks" provide guidance for business initiatives. "Waves" offer a detailed, comparative analysis of products and services.
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Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).
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Research applicable to all facets of IT. Content includes: Magic Quadrants (i.e., a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers), Hype Cycles (i.e., a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications), as well as other reports on vendors and technologies.
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Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).
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Industry and market research data, charts, and reports on topics related to everything digital, including: internet usage, ecommerce, B2B, online marketing and advertising, social media, and mobile device usage.
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Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, identify and analyze competitors, and search investor details.
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Access requires an active UCInetID and password. Authorized affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password (i.e., current UCI students, faculty, and staff).
Users must create an account with their UCI email address. Download limits apply.
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Industry reports addressing very specific technological niches across most high-tech and healthcare industry sectors. The reports contain detailed analysis of the industry including global market data, competitive landscape, trends, and more.
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Global industry research reports that integrate seven perspectives (competitive intensity, customer dynamics, industry convergence, disruptive technologies, global mega trends, new business models, and emerging markets) into a complete, overall view of the factors that impact covered industries.
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Current and historic industry research reports for established and niche U.S. industries, including: Information; Technology; and Professional, Scientific and Technical Services. Reports include key statistics and analysis of market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, key players, and more. Also includes risk reports for established U.S. industries.
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Industry-specific research portals for the most important business sectors, from energy to e-commerce and retailing to financial services. Includes market research and trends analysis, glossaries, statistics, company profiles and contacts, and industry associations and organizations. Spans several major IT industry categories.
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Market research reports that address behaviors, lifestyles, and trends for several major consumer segments. Industry reports covering retail and consumer product sectors that address market conditions, forecasts, prominent brands, trends, and customer decisions. Thematic coverage includes: e-commerce, mobile, and entertainment.
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Reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.
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Peer-reviewed journal of real-life teaching cases and case studies based on individual, organizational, and societal experiences, related to the utilization and management of information technology.
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Content includes scholarly business journals (including open access journals), trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, country reports, company reports, and more. Includes trade publications like Computerworld and CIO Magazine.
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Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full-text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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Ebooks, videos, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and more. Subjects include: Business, Desktop & Web Applications, Data Science & Management, Digital Media, Engineering, IT & Software, Development & Architecture, Math & Science, and Personal & Professional Development.
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UCI – Authorized Affiliates
Access requires an active UCInetID and password.
UCI
Access is available to all users physically on the UCI campus.
Remote access is available to users with active UCInetID and password using the VPN.
Public
Access is generally available to all users.
