Pharmaceuticals Industry

Step 5. Monitor developments with the industry

  • identify industry trends
  • analyze the competition
  • examine the political, legal, technological and environmental issues that affect industry operations
  • search for new product introductions
  • find merger & acquisition trends

Top Business Databases

Below are databases that contain articles from hundreds of trade magazines. In all cases, one can limit results to trade journal articles only, but the risk is missing industry-related articles from other sources (e.g. business magazines, transcripts, newspaper articles, etc.).