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Finding companies for your career o...
Added 4 months ago | 00:05:09 | 188 views |
Know you want to make/create a certain type of device but aren't sure what companies also make/create that device? This video shows you how to use the patent literature to figure out what companies do what you want to do. The...
Finding a list of competitors for y...
Added 4 months ago | 00:01:48 | 186 views |
This video will show you how you can use a company database, like Hoover's, to generate a list of competitors for a company. You can use this competitor list to generate a pool of companies to apply to, or to learn more about the c...
Generating a list of companies for ...
Added 4 months ago | 00:03:07 | 173 views |
This video shows how you can use a compay database, like Hoover's, to create a list of companies in a ceratin geographical area, by an industry code, or other criteria. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries,&nbs...
Why search for patents? What is a p...
Added over 3 years ago | 00:05:21 | 25313 views |
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. Learn about what a patent is and why patents can be important to your research.
Finding articles in engineering and...
Added 9 months ago | 00:03:32 | 1985 views |
This video shows how to search two engineering and science literature databases: Compendex and Inspec. Compendex covers literature in all aspects of engineering, while Inspec focuses on electronics, computing, control, robotics, and phys...
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