Avian Influenza is a very hot field. In this rapid analysis we show how patents can be used to rapidly determine the trends of R&D in this field as well as some differences between different groups of countries, academic institutions and companies.

Patent literature is a unique source of information. In research management, it is often important to compare the best research areas in which a fit exists between academic scientific production and applied research. Comparison between different sets of patents is also useful. The purpose of...

Most of the online searches process through combinations made with boolean operators. We wish to show, in this paper, that it is very easy to search online databases differently. This concept involved searches grounded to non-boolean concepts.

Strategic information is often obtained from online databases via the resolution of matrices containing various data. In this paper we present an automatic way to obtain the data necessary to build these matrices. There is no need to download references and their number is only limited by the...