BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Research
- the examination of statistics and other information regarding past, present, and future trends or performance that enables analysts to recommend to investors which stocks to buy or sell in order to maximize their return and minimize their risk. It may be used either in the top-down approach (where the investor evaluates a market, then an industry, and finally a specific company) or the bottom-up approach (where the investor selects a company and confirms his or her findings by evaluating the company's sector and then its market). Careful research is likely to help investors find the best deals, in particular value shares or growth equities.
- See also Technical Analysis
Wiktionary Definition for: Research
- Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, et cetera; laborious or continued search after truth.
- A particular instance or piece of research.
- (''transitive'') to search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
- (''intransitive'') to make an extensive investigation into.
Additional Resources
- Research And Development: How The "D" Got Into R&D
- Research and Development (R&D) is a central component of official definitions of science. R&D includes more than just research, however. Over two-thirds of R&D expenditures are actually devoted to development. When, how and by whose decision did development come to be part of our definition of research? What was the...
- White papers 2005-09-14
- Marketing Research
- The author of this article explains kinds of marketing research. Primary research refers to the research that a firm conducts for its own needs (e.g., focus groups, surveys, interviews, or observation) while secondary research involves finding information compiled by someone else. It also explains some issues of Primary Research. Read...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Value of Independent Research
- Impartial investment research may be difficult to find, whether it is an in-house research department, an independent research house, academic research, or even face-to-face meetings with companies. The key for fund managers looking for reliable information is to exercise caution, no matter the venue used for research. Regulators world-wide are...
- White papers 2005-10-07
- How To Conduct Market Research
- While conducting market research can be time consuming and costly, the cost of research needs to be balanced against the importance of ensuring that your business venture is successful. Some businesses will conduct research using their own staff but it is often difficult to be objective about your own product....
- White papers 2007-05-21
- Market Research Versus Brand Research
- Use market research to understand your markets, but brand research to understand the customers. What's the difference? Brand and market research are not mutually exclusive. Sometimes, by simultaneously employing both brand and market research, one can develop a multi-dimensional perspective of the business and the customers. This paper explains the...
- White papers
- Health Policy and Systems Research Agendas in Developing Countries
- This paper offers a conceptual framework and defines the HPSR portfolio as a set of research projects under implementation. The research portfolio is influenced by factors external to the research system as well as internal to it. These last include the capacity of research institutions, the momentum of research programs,...
- White papers 2004-08-05
- Marketing Research
- The goal of marketing research is to provide the facts and direction that managers need to make their more important marketing decisions. Marketing research covers a wider range of activities. Marketing research is a more general systematic process that can be applied to a variety of marketing problems. Once the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Conduct Your Own Market Research
- From the executive summary: ‘Whether one is a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer, thorough market research is essential to survive in today's competitive market. Market research is any planned effort that provides new facts and information to improve marketing decisions. Research can be conducted for a variety of reasons, from determining...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Top 10 Market Research Mistakes
- Market research is essential to understanding a person's customers and his competition. Market research can also identify trends that affect sales and profitability. But successful market research takes planning and strategy. In this paper the author explains some of the most common mistakes businesses make in conducting market research and...
- White papers
- Online Research: A Proven Research Tool
- Much attention has been given to the adoption of online research in the market research community. While much of the initial hype focused on the speed and cost effectiveness of online research, one must consider and understand more issues when deciding if online research is the correct tool for the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Market Research Guidelines
- This article help to evaluate research requirements, select the most appropriate research methodologies and serve as a basis of future discussions to make research more reliable and productive. In order to be valuable to a corporate decision maker, market and marketing research must adhere to the same scientific methodology as...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Market Research On The Web: Guidelines For Success
- From the executive summary: ‘The Web is altering the landscape of business in many ways. One of them is marketing research. Marketing research is a tool for businesses to gather vital information on which to base critical business decisions. One complaint with traditional marketing research is that the value of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Can Research Really Help You Make Better Marketing Decisions? Isn't That Its Only Real Purpose?
- Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on market research ostensibly to help companies make better marketing decisions. Despite this effort, the vast majority of new products fail. Does that mean that you should not waste your money on market research? Perhaps it simply suggests that research alone is insufficient,...
- White papers 2003-01-07
- Is Your Company Misallocating its Research Budget
- Research is the central to all sales and marketing efforts. But B2B companies are not spending the money on the type of research that will allow them to win in their chosen markets. This paper explores the present state of marketing research in the B2B space and identifies what’s is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Market Research: Change What You Currently Do
- Research, as currently practiced, is stagnant, describing the market as it currently is, finding solutions and ideas that are already currently known. In turn, profitable revelations rendered from current research processes are few and far between. Failure resides not in the methodology, but in the process leading to the research...
- White papers 2006-06-05
- Research Use Of Patented Knowledge: A Review
- This Working Paper reviews issues related to research access to patented inventions, with a particular focus on the role of research exemptions or experimental use exemptions in protecting such access. It outlines factors that may affect the ability of researchers to access patented inventions for legitimate research purposes; it reviews...
- White papers 2006-03-17
- Market Research
- An extensive market research goes into success of a business. The research involves identifying the target customers, focusing on needs of customers, and searching the market place where a product is to be sold. In addition, there are certain elements required that support the aforesaid factors. The elements are research...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Returns From Arthritis Research Volume 2: The Case Studies
- This paper, prepared for and funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign arc, presents the results of an evaluation of 16 research grants awarded by arc in the early 1990s. The main objective was to develop a system for evaluating arthritis research, with a view to allowing arc to stimulate and...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Bench, Bedside, and Beyond: Clinical Research at the Crossroads
- The opportunities for clinical research are enormous as are the challenges. The importance of nurturing clinical research has never been greater. Bio-molecular findings are bringing a new language of discovery. Clinical research lies at the nexus of basic biomedical research and clinical practice and is the portal through which the...
- White papers 2003-10-30
- Tap Into the Communication Powers of Research
- This article says that employee research is just as much about communicating as it is about gathering and analyzing data. The people who conduct research tend to focus on what we want to achieve the objectives of our study and forget how much communication occurs during the research process. As...
- White papers 2001-01-01
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