The Companies, Startups, and Public Institutions panels provide comprehensive lists of the top 500 organizations relevant to your search. These rankings offer a clear view of key players in your domain, with each panel showcasing organizations ranked based on selected metrics.

• Companies. This ranking highlights the top companies in your search domain, determined by selected metrics. It allows you to recognize major market leaders and competitors, identify up-and-coming innovators and niche players, and explore opportunities for strategic partnerships or acquisitions.
• Startups. This ranking showcases the top startups in your search domain, focusing on companies that began operations within the last eight years. It helps you uncover emerging businesses, evaluate early-stage solutions through funding, patenting, and research activity, and identify opportunities for investment or partnerships with innovative startups poised to disrupt the market.‍
• Public Institutions. This ranking features the top universities, research institutions, government agencies, and other official bodies in your search domain, evaluated based on selected metrics. It enables you to identify key contributors to innovation, uncover potential research collaboration opportunities, and monitor public sector efforts, including government initiatives, public funding, and research policies shaping specific industries.

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Which organizations are displayed?

The rankings you see will vary based on the type of search you perform—whether it's a topic search, an organization search, or a combination of both:

• Topic Search: If you search for a specific topic, the rankings will show organizations that own intellectual property, conduct research, appear in news articles, or are otherwise relevant to that topic.
• Organization Search: If you search for a specific organization, the rankings will display companies and institutions connected to that organization’s ecosystem. For instance, searching for a company like Volkswagen will bring up other automotive companies—Volkswagen’s peers. Some of these peers might also be partners, connected through shared patents, joint research projects, or news articles suggesting collaboration.

The results adapt to your query to provide the most relevant organizations for your focus area.

The rankings are generated based on an analysis of publications, and the timeframes for news, patents, and research influence the results. To ensure fast, accurate, and relevant insights, we analyze documents within the following timeframes:

• News: Covers the last 1 year to reflect the most recent developments.
• Patents: Covers the last 4 years, accounting for a 2-year patent publication gap.
• Research: Covers the last 2 years, focusing on the latest advancements.

These timeframes are carefully chosen to provide the most relevant and actionable insights while maintaining optimal system performance. By focusing on recent and impactful data, we aim to deliver rankings that are both timely and meaningful for your search.

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Panel fields

The rankings provide various fields that offer valuable insights into each organization. These include indicators, automated metrics that provide measurable insights into an organization's performance or activity, and contextual information that provide additional information.

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Indicators

Indicators provide measurable values that quantify various aspects, offering key insights into the organization’s position and significance.

• Global score. This indicator measures an organization’s overall influence and impact in the broader world of innovation and technology, independent of any specific domain or query context. It provides a general assessment of the organization's significance across all areas of activity, offering a baseline metric for its prominence in the global innovation landscape.
• Relevance. This indicator measures how strongly an organization is connected to your query. A higher Relevance score indicates a closer alignment with the search topic or organization. Sorting by Relevance can help uncover smaller, specialized organizations that might be potential hidden champions. Since it is query-dependent, the Relevance value can vary based on the focus of your search.
• Impact. This indicator reflects the overall influence of an organization within the ecosystem defined by your query. It is calculated as the Global Score multiplied by Relevance, combining the organization’s digital footprint across patenting, research, and public visibility. Because it depends on your query, the Impact value may change if the query changes, even if the organization remains connected to it.
• Publication activity. This set of indicators provides a percentage-based estimate of an organization’s activity across three key areas:
  • News. Represents the relative amount of news publications related to both your query and the organization.
  • Research. Reflects the organization’s research activity within the context of your query.
  • Patents. Indicates the organization’s patenting activity relevant to your query.

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Contextual information

These following fields help contextualize the organization's characteristics.

• Match type. This field, located below the organization's name in the rankings, classifies organizations based on their connection to your query.
  
  • Peers: Organizations with similar innovation footprints, reflecting comparable activities or contributions within your search domain.
  • Partners: Organizations that collaborate by pooling resources to achieve shared goals and enhance their innovation impact.
  • Direct Matches: Organizations that directly align with your query, such as a specific company or institution you searched for.
• Founded. The organization’s founding year.
• Funding. The amount of external funding received by investors.
• Country, City. This is where the organization was founded, or where the headquarters, main office etc. are located.
• Employees. Number of employees.
• Revenue. Amount of revenue for an organization. ‍
• Sector. Categories hand-tailored by MAPEGY: Mobility, Electronics & Consumer Goods, Industrials, IT & Telecommunications, Life & Food Sciences, Energy & Infrastructure, Materials & Chemicals, Business & Finance, Culture & Society.

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How to configure displayed fields

You can customize which fields are visible, tailoring the display to your needs.
Just click on the Fields option on the left side of the screen, and select your preferred fields.

Note: Not all selected fields may be visible in the list view. If this occurs, you’ll see an exclamation mark next to the field settings, indicating adjustments may be needed for optimal display.
Clicking on an item will display full details.

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Panel filters

In the rankings, you can use two types of filters to refine your results and focus on the most relevant organizations:

• Server-Side Filters (Deep Filters): These filters load a completely new set of 500 results. They provide a deeper level of filtering by recalculating the rankings based on your selections, ensuring the new results align with your refined search.
  • Country and City. They generate updated results results based on your selection. To use the City filter, you first need to select a country, as the available cities depend on the chosen country. Once the country is selected, you can refine the results further by specifying a city, ensuring the rankings reflect organizations located in your desired region.
  • Ranking type. This filter allows you to refine your results by selecting a specific publication type—News, Patents, or Research—when performing topic queries in both lexical and semantic searches. Applying this filter updates the rankings to focus exclusively on the chosen publication type, providing a tailored set of 500 results. We recommend sorting the rankings by the same publication type after applying the filter. For example, if you filter by Patents, use the sorting dropdown to organize the results by patents for a clear snapshot.
    The data in these rankings is based on specific timeframes:‍
    • Lexical Search: Includes up to 10 years of data for news, patents, and research.‍
    • Smart Search: Includes up to 10 years for news, but only the last 5 years for patents and research to ensure good performance.

• Client-Side Filters (Table Filters): The rest of the filters on the panel work on the current set of 500 results already displayed in the table. They narrow down and organize the existing data without reloading or altering the dataset.

By combining both types of filters, you can effectively explore and analyze the rankings at different levels of granularity.

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How to filter

The filter button, located at the top left of the table, allows you to narrow down your results based on the predefined fields above.

Simply click on Filters, choose the field you want to filter by, and set your criteria. The filters will then apply to the 500 results displayed.

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Search and sort results

Use the search bar at the top of the panel to explore the 500 available results.

If your search returns no results, you'll see the "Inspect" button. Clicking it will include the name of the organization you searched for in the query, initiating a new general search that links your current query to that organization.

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Use the sorting dropdown at the top of the panel to organize the rankings based on a specific field. This helps you focus on the most important aspects of the results and quickly identify organizations that match your priorities.

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AI summary and classification

The Organizations, Startups, and Public Institutions panels include AI functionalities designed to help you better understand who the key players are and how they relate to your topic.

• Leading Players. This AI-generated summary identifies the most relevant and influential organizations—whether companies, startups, or institutions—connected to your query. It helps you quickly see which actors are actively shaping innovation in the area you're exploring.
• Supplier & Competitor Classification. When you run an organization-focused query, the AI automatically classifies each entity as a supplier, competitor, or affiliated brand/subsidiary. This allows you to assess competitive positioning and industry structure at a glance.
• Value Chain Mapping. For topic-based queries and Smart Searches, the AI assigns each organization a role in the value chain—such as supplier, manufacturer, vendor, or innovator. These classifications are based on your applied filters and provide a structured overview of how different actors contribute to the ecosystem around your topic.

Results will be generated based on your applied filters. For SCOUT to provide an AI summary, your search must return at least 25 research publications. If fewer, the summary button will not appear

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Reference section

When you click on an organization, the reference section opens, providing detailed information about that specific organization.This section includes:

• A full description of the organization, explaining its purpose and activities.
• All indicators and contextual information, offering a comprehensive view of its characteristics and metrics.
• Matching documents, such as news, patents, research papers, research projects, and standards, relevant to the organization and your query. You may bookmark these publications to any of your projects.
• External links, when available, including the organization's homepage, Wikipedia page, social media profiles, and Crunchbase entry.

You can navigate through the reference section by clicking the arrows at the top.

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Enable alerts for startups

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