SOCI 302: Fieldwork in Entrepreneurship

Industry reports provide a high level overview on market size, market share of competitors, trends and growth rates, operating cost structures, number of companies, and more. Content includes written analysis and statistics.

Search here to find competitors (other businesses) in your industry. Watch this video for a search example.

Mintel's consumer and market research reports are arranged by Sector, Theme, and Demographic. Reports give market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts. Most of the reports are for the USA, UK and China. Note: Report sections may only be saved or printed out section-by-section, or multiple sections (from different reports) may be saved into the 'report basket' and saved from there as a single merged file. Some excel downloads are permitted for raw data from 2015 onwards.

Detailed analysis of consumer and industrial markets around the world across over 200 countries and 27 industries, with historic data from 1997 and forecasts. Industry analysis includes market size, company and brand shares and profiles of leading companies and brands. Also provides industrial makeup of the worlds largest economies, and data and analysis on consumer lifestyles, and population trends for every country, lifestyle and consumer type.

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Provides global market research reports which cover changes driven by science and technology.  The reports include detailed market size forecasts which incorporate the major economic, scientific and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical and high technology organizations.

Use SimplyAnalytics to access demographic and consumer behavior data to discover your target customers.

An online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

Provides web-based access to United States Census data from 1790 to the present, and to other U.S. and international data, with the ability to make tables and interactive maps easily or export data for analysis. Data include the most commonly used variables and geographies.

Market research reports about consumer industries. Learn who the customers are and what they care about.

Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.

Business Source Premier is the major source for scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business; marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Customized Google search of 1200+ of the most important US and international think tanks. Think tanks are institutions affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research and analysis.

Database covering over 2500 journals in sociology, both theoretical and applied, and related disciplines including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Articles in 30 different languages from about 55 countries.

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences; indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals for anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, library science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, psychiatry, etc.

All UNC Chapel Hill students now have full, year-round access to The New York Times, including smartphone, tablet, and browser access, thanks to a sponsorship from the University Library. For app downloads, visit NYTimes.com/mobile.

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