I am interested in data (preferably free) of new products or services introduced to the market in a given year by publicly traded company in any industry.
Is there such a thing, or am I being fanciful (the regular homeostasis for me). If not, is there a way to, ideally relatively painlessly, to patch together such a data set from other publicly available data-set that meets management research data rigor?
Thanks!
Sanwar, this data is very hard to get. You can get summary data from innovation surveys but they do not have specific information on actual products. See the community innovation survey in Europe
best wishes
Beth Webster
Hi Sanwar,
I haven't seen any info resource that does that in one place.
A couple of suggestions:
You could look at previous academic research/articles exploring similar ideas and see if they give a methodology as to how they tracked new products.
You could pick a source that at the end of the year lists new products like this Popular Science Article (see Link I below). This method is tricky because each source will have a different angle. I would not expect to find a new food delivery service in Popular Science just as I would not expect to find a new lawn mower in a food trade magazine
You could do the reverse and pick the companies from the industries you are interested in then look at their info to see what new products or services they offer. This might be a bit difficult but there are many years of press releases in ProQuest and other article databases.
Finally, you might look at the "member news" section of the relevant industry trade associations. This often is a goldmine of recent innovations from public and private corporations (link III below is an example from gear manufacturers)
Good luck!
http://www.popsci.com/best-of-whats-new-2015
https://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&btnG=Search&q=best+new+20+products+2016
https://www.agma.org/newsroom
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