Scientific & Technical Market Research for Advanced Market Insights

Navigate the complexities of industry and consumer trends with Nerac’s customized market assessments. Our in-depth technical research and scientific analysis pave the way for new product opportunities and reveal untapped potential in adjacent markets. Stay ahead with our strategic technology scouting that offers a long-term view of disruptive and emerging technologies in your sectors.

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Nerac’s market research services enable clients to quickly expand their in-house technical resources with exceptional expertise and scalable capability. Nerac screens, monitors and delivers critical information relevant to your areas of interest to speed your market research needs.

We help you minimize overall R&D time and costs through research and analysis of emerging, competing, or adjacent products and technologies.

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Elevate your innovation with strategic insights from Nerac

Our precision in scientific and technical research empowers organizations to lead technological progress, optimize innovation investments, and stand out in competitive markets. With custom market assessments and proactive technology scouting, we ensure you’re informed and ahead of industry trends.

Interested in learning more about how Nerac can help you and your team with:

  • Customized market assessment and analysis?
  • Competitive intelligence?

  • Intellectual Property Landscape and Analysis?

  • Technology and Innovation Scouting and Monitoring?

  • Emerging Technology Identification and Assessment?

  • Policy and regulatory assessment services?
  • Product development and commercialization?
  • Strategic alliance services?
  • Industry, consumer, and technology trends?

Learn How to Leverage Nerac’s Unique Resources

Nerac’s analysts have backgrounds in the electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering disciplines, and collaborate with analysts from other industries such as chemistry/materials, medical devices, packaging, thin films, advanced and bio-engineered materials, emerging technologies, energy and pharmaceuticals to develop the research team appropriate for your specific needs.

What You Can Expect From Nerac:

  • Access to global proprietary patent and non-patent literature databases

  • Seasoned technical researchers with in-depth market knowledge

  • Flexible, reliable, cost effective results, customized to your needs
  • Collaboration from project scope to client deliverable
  • Guidance for best practices and most efficient approach
  • Unbiased, third-party evaluation
  • Peace of Mind

The Nerac Difference

Nerac’s services enable clients to quickly expand their in-house research operation with exceptional expertise and scalable capability. While many consulting and outsourcing firms focus on serving large project customers, Nerac is one of the few firms in the market focused on providing an attractive choice for clients seeking rapid response research and advisory services for mission-critical engagements that require highly experienced expert advisors in a wide variety of disciplines.

Nerac analysts have expertise in areas including:

  • Competitive Intelligence

  • Intellectual Property Landscape and Analysis

  • Diligence and Risk Mitigation

  • Technology Assessment
  • Emerging Technology Identification and Assessment

  • Market Assessment

  • Regulatory Policy

  • Strategic Alliance Services

  • Technology and Innovation Scouting

Nerac’s Subscription Benefits

A Nerac subscription offers numerous benefits for clients who require frequent support:

Convenience and Scalability

Easily scale your research operations with on-demand access to expert analysts.

Cost Savings and Predictability

With a subscription, you gain cost-effective services and better financial forecasting.

Direct Communication and Collaboration

Enjoy a direct line of communication with our experts, fostering stronger business relationships.

Higher Customer Engagement

Our collaborative approach ensures your needs are met with personalized services and tailored support.

Ready to Align Your IP with Market Demand?

Unlock the full value of your innovations by grounding your IP decisions in solid market intelligence.
Contact us to see how our research can inform your strategy.

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Meet Our Market Research Analysts

Ben Bahavar
Ph.D.

Erica Kramer
Ph.D.

Lori Burdick
Ph.D., MBA

Miriam Efken
MSc

Richard Hendriks
Ph.D.

Richard Maldanis
Ph.D.

Rosemarie Szostak
Ph.D.

Frequently Asked Questions

Working with a Nerac analyst means more than just searches. We understand your technology, guide you through findings, and highlight the most relevant insights and leads for your business objectives.

Yes. Nerac analysts have decades of experience navigating chemical nomenclatures, Markush substructures, and intellectual property across pharma, specialty chemistry and agrochemical sectors. Your analyst continuously monitors relevant patents, publications, and press releases from academic groups, start-ups and smaller companies developing technologies that may impact your space. Nerac analysts compile a detailed dossier that includes company overviews, available technology information, current partnerships or collaborations, and potential opportunities for licensing or engagement. This allows you to stay ahead of competitors and evaluate strategic partnerships with confidence.

Deriving actionable insights from technology, market, and patent literature can be challenging. That’s why Nerac works closely with you from the start, clearly defining the scope, confirming your objectives, and engaging with you throughout the research process. This relationship-based approach ensures you stay informed as insights develop. Your analyst draws on deep expertise to identify the most relevant information, validate its accuracy, and clearly explain how the data was gathered, analyzed, and interpreted. This transparency gives you confidence that the results are reliable, aligned with your goals, and ready to be applied directly to your business decisions.

Exploring adjacent markets can be challenging when your team is focused on your core business. Your Nerac analyst helps you identify opportunities to apply your technology in new industries by tapping into intellectual property databases and exploring alternative applications, assessing points of entry, competing technologies, and current players in those markets. This integrated analysis combines IP insights, technical feasibility, ROI, and market factors, giving you the information needed to make confident decisions about entering adjacent spaces.

Your Nerac analyst can provide comprehensive competitive intelligence and patent landscape assessment by tracking competitors’ R&D activities, patent filings, product launches, and strategic moves into adjacent markets. By analyzing trends, IP portfolios, and business strategies, Nerac helps you understand where competitors are innovating, which markets they are targeting, and where opportunities may exist for your company to differentiate or expand.

A. Your Nerac analyst can help you set up cost-effective solutions to, track and monitor competitor activity by developing focused strategies on a given topic through automated alerts. These alerts provide regular updates on patent activity, industry developments, and other relevant news, giving you a timely and efficient way to stay informed about your competitors’ activities. For a more comprehensive tracking, our clients can choose mediated alerts and/or custom briefings. Depending on the needs, the results are reviewed for relevancy by an analyst and sent in a searchable spreadsheet. This metadata set for patents can include, for example, a list of patents in a particular family, with links to the full patent, and the title/abstract/claims/priority dates. Also, the dataset can include, when desired, class codes, technology summary, and legal information (alive/dead). Additionally flagging emerging patent families would be another indication that a competitor may be pursuing a new technology avenue.

Your Nerac analyst can create a Global Custom Briefing tailored to your needs. These briefings can be customized and organized by product, technology, or concept, providing regular updates on competitors, new patents, and emerging technologies. This approach keeps you informed of the latest developments and helps you make strategic, data-driven decisions.

Yes. Your Nerac analyst can set up cost-effective automated alerts or create a custom briefing tailored to your needs. This approach tracks relevant patents and competitor activity, giving you timely insights into the IP landscape and helping you stay ahead in your field.

Yes, your Nerac analyst can monitor your patent portfolio to track patents of interest, identifying who is citing your patents and competitor activity. This delivers critical intelligence on potential infringement, adjacent market opportunities, emerging competitors to watch, and ideal targets for partnerships or M&A, keeping you strategically positioned with consolidated, actionable insights.

Yes. Your Nerac analyst can set up cost-effective automated alerts or create a custom briefing tailored to your needs. This approach monitors competitors’ patents and related activity, providing you with actionable insights to stay informed and strategically positioned.

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