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Behind the scenes

Take a deeper look at how Linknovate turns thousands of data sources and millions of documents and websites into structured intelligence about companies, emerging technologies, and innovation trends.

The Relevant Factors in Our Algorithm

Linknovate combines hybrid search, intelligent weighting, and organization-level aggregation to surface the most relevant companies, institutions, and research actors.

1 Your search
2 Find the right evidence
Conferences
Publications
News
Web monitoring
Patents & Trademarks
Grants
Technology reviews
Clinical trials
3 Evaluate and weight every signal
Semantic relevance
Exact phrase matching
Keyword match
Recency
Context & proximity
Source weighting
4 Connect evidence to organizations
EcoVolt
Patent
Research paper
Funding
12 pieces of evidence
GreenMat Research
Research paper
Grant
News
9 pieces of evidence
CircuLabs
Patent
News
Funding
8 pieces of evidence
5 Rank organizations, not documents
#1 EcoVolt
92
Advanced battery recycling solutions
#2 GreenMat Research
78
Sustainable materials research institute
#3 CircuLabs
64
Circular economy innovation lab
We find and rank the organizations behind the evidence, not just the documents that mention your keywords.
The difference

Unlike Google, Linknovate doesn't just rank pages

General search helps you find information. Linknovate helps you identify the organizations, technologies, and relationships that matter across an innovation ecosystem.

General-purpose search

Google shows you pages

Find where information appears across the web.

  • Ranks individual webpages. Each result is evaluated as a separate page or piece of content.
  • Optimized for broad information retrieval. Designed to serve many intents, audiences and source types across the open web.
  • Returns links from unrelated sources. Patents, news, papers, company pages and databases remain separate results.
  • Leaves consolidation to the user. You must inspect, compare and connect the relevant evidence manually.
  • Shows where keywords appear. Useful for discovery, but not designed to measure overall innovation activity.
Innovation intelligence

Linknovate shows you who matters

Understand who is driving innovation, why they are relevant, and how they are connected.

  • Ranks organizations and innovation actors. Companies, institutions, technologies and research groups become the unit of discovery.
  • Aggregates evidence across source types. Patents, publications, grants, funding, news and partnerships connect to the same entity.
  • Built on a specialized knowledge base. 150M+ curated innovation records, structured and enriched specifically for R&D and technology scouting.
  • Applies innovation-specific weighting. Relevance depends on source type, recency, context, match strength and contributors.
  • Reveals activity and relationships. See who is active, what they are working on, and how knowledge and collaboration flow.
  • Produces intelligence you can act on. Move directly toward scouting, benchmarking and partner discovery.
Linknovate AI

How are we different from general AI models?

General-purpose AI assistants are designed to answer a wide range of questions. They are great for brainstorming, drafting, and summarizing, but their answers may not always be based on current, verifiable, or traceable sources.

Linknovate AI is purpose-built for innovation, R&D, and technology scouting. It combines advanced AI with Linknovate's database of 150+ million innovation records, grounding insights in real companies, patents, scientific publications, projects, funding, partnerships, and market signals.

Go beyond generic answers: discover actionable intelligence for your innovation strategy.

Why innovation teams choose Linknovate AI

Grounded in trusted innovation data

Answers are supported by relevant, traceable evidence rather than broad model knowledge alone.

Built for technology scouting

A specialized knowledgebase to identify emerging companies, technologies, research activity, experts, and collaboration networks.

Designed for complete workflows

Move from an initial question to landscape analysis, shortlists, reports, monitoring, and decision support.

Current when it matters

When additional evidence is needed, Linknovate AI can extend the analysis with up-to-date web research.

Ready-to-use outputs

Generate source-backed briefings, competitive intelligence summaries, reports, and newsletters.

Continuous intelligence, not one-off answers

Monitor companies, technologies, research developments, and market signals over time.

Greater privacy for sensitive research

Add an extra layer of protection for searches, conversations, and strategic innovation work.

The best of both worlds

The precision of a specialized innovation database.
The breadth of live web research.
The reasoning and synthesis of state-of-the-art AI models.
Generic AI gives you an answer. Linknovate AI gives you the evidence, actors, and next steps.

Up-to-date data, expanding coverage daily

150M+ documents indexed and 11M+ organization profiles, and growing. We continuously ingest and structure large-scale scientific, technical, and industry data to keep coverage broad, current, and relevant across the global innovation landscape.

Conferences

7M+ conferences covered via proceedings and presentations.

Publications

Data from 75000+ scientific journals and +45M papers.

News

Online magazines, specialized news outlets and market reports.

Web monitoring

Like Google, we monitor the web for hundreds of thousands of companies and organizations we identify as relevant.

Patents & Trademarks

USPTO, EPO and WIPO coverage. Plus product trademarks.

Grants

EU (from FP6 to Horizon Europe), US (SBIR/STTR, NSF, DoE, DoD), UK (GtR), and other national programmes (SP, NL, AT…).

Technology reviews

Tech reviews from multiple horizon scanning services, analysing new and emerging technologies, procedures, treatment models.

Clinical trials

Studies from European, US, AU and NZ registries.

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