LibGuides: Business & Management (RSM): Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

Journals

Entrepreneurship

Private company, start-up, venture-capital, private equity data are available in the following subscription-based databases:

Please note these databases are restricted for academic purposes only and cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Morningstar (remote access)
Morningstar provides detailed data for mutual funds, exchange traded funds, open-end and closed-end funds.
Morningstar can only be accessed remotely. You need to book a machine.

WRDS Venture Capital

All federally filed private placements ― “equity” or ownership change in a company above a certain monetary threshold, but without a formal IPO or M&A process. Data from 5 different SEC filings.

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is the interface to datasets from Bankscope, CRSP, Compustat, ExecuComp en I/B/E/S, OptionMetrics, RiskMetrics and TAQ.

Users need to create an account, see https://www.eur.nl/en/library/erasmus-data-service-centre/wharton-research-data-services

Websites:

British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA)
Research reports on British Venture Capital Market
Private Capital Investment in South America
Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association

Business Source Premier
Provides bibliographic or full text content from 1,300 academic journals, magazines and trade publications covering business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

Platform: EBSCOhost
Compustat Global (via WRDS)
CompuStat Global consists of annual and quarterly report data of listed companies, with an emphasis on non-American and non-Canadian companies.
Compustat North America (via WRDS)
CompuStat North America consists of annual and quarterly report data of listed American and Canadian companies.
Datastream (LSEG Workspace)
LSEG Workspace is the new name for both Eikon and Datastream. The LSEG Workspace software is available in Y1-7 (Polak building). We also have virtual machines with the software installed. We have designated machines for students and staff. You are required to login with an username password that you can find at the bottom of your monitor.
Factiva
Factiva contains business information and news from local and global newspapers like the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, trade journals, magazines and newswires like Dow Jones, Reuters and the Associated Press.
GlobalData – Consumer Goods
This database provides access to global consumer research topics including e.g. coverage of new products, business trends and marketing analytics.
GlobalData – Explorer
GlobalData Explorer is a cross-sector platform providing information across 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, GlobalData Explorer offers broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries and impacting companies.
GlobalData Explorer contents
GlobalData Explorer is a cross-sector platform providing information across 22 industries. Combining macroeconomic data and information on thousands of companies, GlobalData Explorer offers you broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries and impacting companies.
Companies
Access to information on more than 1,000,000+ companies worldwide. You can screen the companies by multiple criteria as e.g. geography, time period, industry, financials, deals and company type.
You can find company profiles on all companies in the database. When it comes to public listed and major private companies, you can find very detailed information including basic data, history, management biographies, industry affiliations and products, main competitors, as well as financial data and analyses. Furthermore, you can find SWOT analyses, social media analytics and more.
Sectors: Industry data and profiles
The database covers 22 sectors/industries together with a lot of sub-sectors.
About the sectors, you can find:
- Reports on global, national, and regional industries and business sectors. The reports contain both historical (past 5 years) and projection (next 5 years) data, including statistics.
- Access to Databases & Analytics such as
- Market analyzer: Explore, analyze and visualize data across multiple dimensions such as sector, category, and geography.
- Global Ads: access real-time monitoring of latest competitive advertising and communications from leading brands, including paid content from television and print media, and brand-owned communications from social media channels including YouTube, Facebook and Weibo (not available for all sectors)
- Product Launch Analytics – Search innovative product launches across categories and geographies. Use this to understand which products are on trend which highlight the future of innovation.
Countries
Information about 200 countries, including basic data, financial and political news and analyses, as well as macroeconomic, demographic, and social data. Statistics cover data from 1990 and forward as well as 5-year projections.
Each page integrates resources from across the Intelligence Center, including:
- geography-specific news,
- sector reports and related reports: here you find PESTLE reports.
- macroeconomic data: economy, demographics, labor force and employment, external environment and more.
- Deals, city profiles, COVID-19 Country Dashboard, Global Ads, and more
- analysis of market players, and market and product databases.
Databases
Access to more specified databases
- Sector databases: find data on industries and companies
- General databases: macroeconomic data, city data, COVID-19
- Influencers: focus on CEOs, cybersecurity, geopolitics and macroeconomics
- Company filing analytics – uncover overarching company sentiment and underlying trends hidden in vast amounts of financial and non-financial data available in company transcripts.
- Job Analytics – get a concise market and competitive overview by analyzing job trends and deep dive for a more customized /detailed listing along with associated analytics. This can also be used as a live job board to apply for internships and full time / part time jobs.
Orbis
Financial data of 79 million companies worldwide.

Open data sources:

OpenCorporates
Open and free database of company data, originating from primary public sources.
Provides access to their API.
UK Companies House
Companies House is the United Kingdom's registrar of companies. All forms of companies are incorporated and registered with Companies House and file specific details as required by legislation.
Business registers – search for a company in the EU
In accordance with Directive 2012/17/EU this service is to cover the business registers of all EU countries as well as Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.

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At the moment you can only request information that the national registers provide free of charge. To request documents against payment, please go to the national register’s website, where the final price will be specified.

To retrieve current and historical data on publicly companies' investment in research and development, as reported in their annual reports, you can access:

Compustat Global (via WRDS)
CompuStat Global consists of annual and quarterly report data of listed companies, with an emphasis on non-American and non-Canadian companies.
Compustat North America (via WRDS)
CompuStat North America consists of annual and quarterly report data of listed American and Canadian companies.
Datastream (LSEG Workspace)
LSEG Workspace is the new name for both Eikon and Datastream. The LSEG Workspace software is available in Y1-7 (Polak building). We also have virtual machines with the software installed. We have designated machines for students and staff. You are required to login with an username password that you can find at the bottom of your monitor.

Patents are a valuable source of information. Patents not only provide details about an invention or technology, but provide insight into companies research activities -which are rarely recorded elsewhere- and a record of their trajectory in innovation.

To find patent data, you can browse through the following databases:

Orbis
Financial data of 79 million companies worldwide.
Nexis Uni
Database with access to full-text newspaper articles and other news sources (Dutch and international).

Nexis Uni News contains major world publications (for example Financial Times), newspapers (including Dutch newspapers,such as De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad) and news wires like PR Newswire.

Also included is company information, law reviews and cases

Please note: Legal news, law reviews and legal cases are mostly American.
Date range: The date range and update schedule differs per source. However, as the collection only contains born-digital material, the oldest items are from around 1990.
Related databases: Factiva; Delpher

WRDS US Patents (Beta) - current data coverage between 2011 and 2019.

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS) is the interface to datasets from Bankscope, CRSP, Compustat, ExecuComp en I/B/E/S, OptionMetrics, RiskMetrics and TAQ.

Users need to create an account, see https://www.eur.nl/en/library/erasmus-data-service-centre/wharton-research-data-services

General country patent and R&D statistics are available on Passport.

Free websites:

WIPO IP Statistics Data Center - Online service enabling access to WIPO's statistical data on intellectual property (IP) activity worldwide.
WIPO - PATENTSCOPE - Database that tallows you to access millions of patent documents, namely: International Patent Applications under the PCT Regional and national patent collections from all participating countries.
EPO - European Patent Office
Espacenet - The Netherlands Patent Office
Free Patents Online - Provides linked categories to help explore patents in a particular area.
Google Patents - Full text searchable international patents.
Patent Lens - Integrated visualization tools plus the ability to download bulk data.