Research Services

Nowadays, no-one can afford to waste valuable resources on time-consuming searches for slippery and elusive information. We help you painlessly stay in touch with the latest innovations and developments in your specific area of interest — along with emerging opportunities and risks appearing on the horizon.

Besides our basic research and analysis capabilities, we provide a complementary suite of information and intelligence related products and services designed to fit your individual requirements and budget.

Watching Brief

We use ancient hunter-gatherer skills combined with the latest business intelligence techniques to find and filter all kinds of information on your behalf. We keep a watching brief on emerging technologies and economic trends that provide early warning of events that may significantly affect the vital interests of our clients.

For fast, general information requests, two basic levels of research are available:

Quick Search

Quick Search information packages are compact collections of bibliographies, abstracts, articles, brief reports and lists.

Service charges, such as phonecalls, fax, email and photocopying are all inclusive in our prices. All information requests are treated with total confidentiality.

Some examples of quick search information packages are:

  • Explore future trends in the United States market for interactive TV, DVDs and multi player games;
  • Identify major international cultural festivals featuring operatic works in 2005/6;
  • Report on the real cost efficiency of distributed power sustems, such as solar power, micro generation and PEM fuel cells compared to traditional methods of generating electricity in places such as Vanuatu, Indonesia or the Sudan;
  • Verify mythology surrounding the use of small handblown glass vials or ‘tear glasses’ during burial ceremonies in ancient Imperial Rome;
  • Find new international markets for organically grown plant pharmaceuticals produced in Australia;
  • Identify new ethical investment opportunities; and,
  • Contact the top 10 advertising agencies in the United States and identify their creative directors and key decision makers.

Comprehensive Research

Comprehensive requests are inquiries that require substantial and complex research strategies. The results of each search are tailored to each client’s specific information needs. Requests are generally carried out on a consultancy basis with quotations being provided before any research is undertaken.

Service charges, such as phonecalls, fax, email and photocopying are all inclusive. All information requests are treated with total confidentiality.

Some examples of the type of Comprehensive requests that e3i can perform are:

  • Identifying new markets and trends within the Asian, Pacific and United States cable and satellite television industry;
  • Compiling a background report on the global intractable waste industry, including an examination of the global intractable waste industry structure, disposal sites, current disposal methods and a thorough analysis of alternative methods of disposal, such as plasma-arc incineration, bio-remediation and industrial symbiosis design;
  • Providing information on potential markets, manufacturers and distributors for the developers of a new type of safe pill dispenser;
  • Preparing a review of current and emerging global air quality standards focusing on the United States, Canada, Netherlands and Japan, with particular accent on emissions from aluminium smelters;
  • Compiling a comprehensive report on international corporate sponsorship for performing arts groups, as well as identifying relevant international philanthropic foundations;
  • Exploring the world’s best positive aging strategies for societies experiencing profound demographic and cultural change;
  • Reporting on current trends and emerging technologies in the hybrid and H2 fuel cell vehicle industry. Examining international progress in ultralight electric hybrid/fuel cell vehicle design and manufacture, current production methods, composite materials and control systems, fuel infrastructure, and a long range assessment of the future viability of the clean vehicle industry as a whole; and,
  • Gathering metereological, biological, ecological and film production research for a TV series on marine life around Australia, with a particular emphasis on temperate coral reef ecosystems.