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Economics 106E and 106EL: Economics of Entrepreneurship

Key Industry Data Sources

BCC Research offers market research reports covering major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial and advanced manufacturing (Business-to-Business), pharmaceutical, and high technology organizations. 


Best Practices provides benchmarking data and other strategic research, originally commissioned by Fortune 500 clients and the like, on real life "best practices" in such areas as customer service, sales and marketing, human resources, operations, knowledge management, and the Internet and e-business.


 

First Research reports are good starting points for U.S. and Canadian industry research.


 

IBISWorld contains two components:

  • U.S. and global market/industry reports, many of which are for highly-specialized, niche industries. UCLA's subscription also includes access to the U.S. Specialized Industry Reports; U.K. Industry Reports; China Industry Reports; Global Industry Research Reports; Australia Industry Reports; and the U.S. Business Environment Profiles.
     
  • UCLA also has the IBISWorld Procurement Reports.

 

 

Mergent Web Reports provide global industry reports for major industries such as oil and gas, healthcare, insurance and biotechnology.  Reports may be downloaded as PDFs.


RKMA Market Research offers a series of extensive market research handbooks covering topics such as healthcare, consumer behavior, etc. 


 

 

Statista is a great resource for industry and public company data. It's a portal for business and industry, government, and demographic statistics that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from some 18,000+ public and commercial sources onto a single, easy-to-search platform.