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Build your own applications and models on top of Mergeflow data
With Mergeflow's API, you can build new kinds of models and analyses previously not possible. And you can feed real-time, structured R&D and business data into your own applications.
Just to give you a few ideas, here are a few examples of what you can do with Mergeflow's API:
Discover market changing innovations
As a strategy or market intelligence professional, a major part of your work is discovering emerging technologies early on, and following their development over time. Based on what you see, you identify "regions of interest" that may benefit your company’s value creation—or that may be disruptive to your business.
The challenge is that relevant developments may come from many different fields. And because you don't know in advance which ones will pan out, you have to cast a wide net. On top of this, many interesting developments first show up dispersed, across tech sectors and data sources.
Using Mergeflow data on patents and R&D publications, we identified potential hotspots for additive manufacturing innovation. These hotspots then turned out to be an area where major companies teamed up to create large-scale 3D-printed objects.
Read what we did exactly, and how we did itAs a strategy or market intelligence professional, with Mergeflow's API you can...
Follow developments across multiple tech sectors
By automating the gathering and organizing of information, you can track innovations in computing, materials, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, and others that are spreading across all tech sectors and industries—most likely including yours.
Feed organized R&D data into your enterprise collaboration system
Via Mergeflow’s API, you can obtain information on R&D, markets, players, and ideas that are relevant to your teams and projects. And because the data come in standard JSON format, you can feed them into your existing project management and collaboration systems.
Adapt analytics to your specific needs
Technology and market developments that are important to you and your organization may be different from those that are important to others. With Mergeflow's API, you can design pattern detection and alert logics that fit your needs.
Explore M&A targets
As a corporate M&A professional, exploring potential M&A targets is probably part of your job. Typically, the goal is to identify, from a long list of potentially relevant ones, those companies that meet your technology needs, and to then explore those companies in greater detail.
But in order to get to this short list, you need to explore information on hundreds of companies, sometimes even more. Done manually, or through consultants, this would be too time consuming.
The example above uses data from Mergeflow to explore some chemicals companies, their applications and technologies. We used PowerBI to visualize the data (you could also use tools like Qlik Sense or Tableau).
See this liveAs a corporate M&A professional, with Mergeflow's API you can...
Explore more companies
Thanks to automated information gathering and semantic analysis, you can scale your screening activities, practically without limits.
Directly apply your expertise
You know best what is a good fit, and what your technology needs are. And you have a "know it when you see it"-like intuition about your domain. Through Mergeflow’s API, you can apply your skillset directly, without middlemen.
Proceed iteratively
Even when you have a clear idea of what your technology needs are, you may not find a perfect match right away. You may have to iterate and run several analyses. This is only possible with analytics automation, such as through Mergeflow’s API.
Discover and track emerging technologies
As a product designer or manager, scientist or engineer, you have to span two extremes: On the one hand, you need to discover new technologies as early as possible. After all, integrating a new technology into your R&D pipeline usually requires time. At the other end of the spectrum, you have to scan the market context of your technologies so that you can make a case for investing in them.
This means that in addition to traditional R&D information sources, such as journals and papers, you will also need to consider venture investments, government R&D funding, and market information, for example.
Using Mergeflow’s API, we analyzed trends in a set of emerging materials technologies, in government R&D funding (left), science publications (middle), and venture funding (right).
As a product designer, scientist or engineer, with Mergeflow's API you can...
Analyze more technologies
The most obvious advantage of automating information gathering and analysis: You can explore not just a handful but large sets of technologies, ideas, and players.
Explore intersections of industries and tech sectors
Typically, the most interesting innovations happen at intersections of industries and tech sectors. Mergeflow's API gives you the necessary bandwidth to explore a large variety of possible technology and application combinations.
Test more hypotheses
As you look for potentially relevant ideas that you can’t even name yet, you typically have a range of hypotheses for how these ideas may appear in the data. Using Mergeflow's API, you can test all your hypotheses, rather than just the small subset that you'd have to pick if you ran your analyses manually.
Get organized data on the world of innovation
Our API gives you direct access to organized, real-time innovation data from around the web. So you don't have to build your own data lake and analytics.
Document data
Titles & excerpts
Entities, patent classes, emerging technologies
Semantically related documents
Funding data
Venture fundings
Funded research projects
Market data
Market segments
Market size and CAGR estimates
Market-relevant companies
Entity data
Inventors and researchers
Companies
Organizations
Investors
Locations
Countries
Chemical compounds
Organisms
Diseases (ICD-10 nomenclature)
Topic data
Emerging technologies
Patent classes (for all documents)
Timeline data
Document volume over time
Funding amounts over time
Relationship data
Relationships between entities
Relationships between topics
Distributional data
Entity distributions
Topic distributions
Data sources are updated every two hours, except patents, which are updated weekly.
Here are more details, in our Technical Knowledge Base:
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"Investing in technology discovery might seem like a risky strategy, but it's one that pays off.
Mergeflow's software, which was used by BMW to build the company's tech radar, scans thousands of scientific and technological publications, patents, news, market analyses, investor activities and other data every day. Users can search for a concept or a category and immediately access hundreds of potential innovations that are related to their query."
ZDNet.com, These 'technology scouts' are hunting for the next big thing in tech. Here's how they do it. By Daphné Leprince-Ringuet.
Read on ZDNetYou can start with the tools you already have
You can feed data from our API into tools like PowerBI, Qlik Sense, or Tableau. This way you can build applications and models on top of our data—without having to buy and learn new tools first.
Below is our example from above that we built with PowerBI. It uses data from Mergeflow on chemicals companies, applications and technologies.
Get Mergeflow data and structured analyses via our RESTful API
Our customers use Mergeflow's API to feed R&D and business data into tailored, in-house business intelligence analytics.
The data from our API come in JSON format.
And here are the technical details you need to start building:
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