Entrepreneurship: Industry Research

Best Bet Databases

IBISWorld
A resource for full-text industrial market research reports. Reports are available in variety of areas including mining, construction, wholesale and retail distribution, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, education, financial services, arts, entertainment, accommodations and food service, and more. Search by keyword, NAICS or SIC codes.
Statista
Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics & reports; insights into consumers and markets include brand share, sales channels, and more. Scope is US, international, global.

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Categorized into 21 market sectors, it provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Statista includes data sources such as market research reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. For each statistic, metadata is also provided including but not limited to source, release date, number of respondents, and any other relevant details to facilitate verification of all statistical information available in the database.
Marketline
Marketline consists of reports on 10,000 companies in the US and internationally, as well as 2,000 industry reports and in-depth country and city reports. It also includes mergers & acquisitions data.
BCC Research
On campus access only. BCC Research provides detailed market research reports in emerging industries including biotech, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and information technology.
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Census Business Builder
Includes data about size of industry and benchmarking tools in specific areas. Industries are expressed through NAICS codes only. Includes information on consumers including; socioeconomic, demographic, industry and business data.

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Two editions.
Small Business Edition- allows access to information about potential customers and similar businesses.
social, economic, housing, and demographic data from the ACS, business data from the County Business Patterns, Economics census and survey of business owners, International trade program, USDA

Demographic and consumer spending data are available at the state, county, city/town, zip code, and census tract levels.

Economic data is available at the state, county and city/ town levels.

Agricultural and trade data are only available at the state level.

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Subjects: Entrepreneurship

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