The Race

What is this metric used for?

The Race allows to understand how your competitors are positioned overall.

By analyzing your competitors' scientific and technical production, it is possible to position them in relation to each other on a certain domain or topic. This way you can have a quick and global overview of where everyone is located, who is leading the race and especially where your organization stands in relation to them.

To use the Race, you must first have set up the list of organizations you want to compare. To get further information, please refer to the Set up Organizations to run a Competitive Landscape article.

How is the graphic built?

In order to offer a global vision, the graph aggregates 6 dimensions to analyze the different players around a topic: experience, momentum, networks, patent activity, scientific activity, and buzz. 

The score obtained is then taken to a scale from 0 to 100 for better understanding (the player obtaining the best overall score is automatically set to 100).

To go further

The graph shows the overall ranking of your competitors and your company on a topic. 

The overall score is established by aggregating 6 metrics, each with a percentage of importance.

To be readable the graph is normalized to 100 (the first of the race having the score of 100).

Metrics are distributed as follows :

Experience

Analysing scientific and technical production of your competitors, it is possible to position everyone’s experience on a topic.

Experience combines 2 parameters: Date of publication and regularity of the work to date.

Parameters are distributed as following:

Momentum

Analysing scientific and technical production of your competitors, it is possible to position everyone’s momentum on a topic.

Momentum combines 2 parameters: Amount of recent works and acceleration during last years.

Parameters are distributed as following:

Network & Influence

Analysing  scientific and technical production of your competitors, it is possible to position everyone’s Network on a topic.

Network combines 5 parameters : Centrality of each player, size of the network, reach of the network, diversity of partners and participation in collaborative activities (projects…).

Parameters are distributed as following :

Patenting Activity

Analysing  patents fillings of your competitors, it is possible to position everyone’s patenting activity on a topic.

Patenting Activity is based on amount of patents filled on a topic.

Scientific Activity

Analysing scientific works, clinical studies and research projects of your competitors, it is possible to position everyone’s scientific activity on a topic.

Scientific Activity combines:

• Number of published documents 
• Sum of the scores of its documents (all types) 
• Diversity of scientific works 

Buzz

Analysing web sites and web contents of your competitors, it is possible to position everyone’s buzz and communication on a topic