Scaling Innovation Intelligence Across Europe and Asia with EconSight

The Challenge EconSight is a leader in "Innovation Intelligence," using patent data and corporate signals to rank the world's most technologically advanced companies for ETFs and strategy consulting. To maintain the accuracy of their "Gamechanger" portfolios, they needed to corroborate patent filings with deep corporate disclosures. However, obtaining a unified view was difficult: they required a complete 5-year historical baseline for Europe, and crucially, they needed to expand coverage to the opaque, non-English markets of Japan and South Korea—home to key electronics and battery innovators. Building internal scrapers for these disparate Asian jurisdictions would have delayed their global roadmap by months.

The Solution FinancialReports acted as an agile data expansion partner, delivering a two-phase bespoke solution.

1. European Baseline: First, we executed a bulk extraction of 5 years of Annual Reports across all listed European entities, establishing a solid historical foundation for their trend analysis.
2. On-Demand Market Expansion: When EconSight identified critical gaps in Asia, we engineered custom ingestion pipelines to open up the Japanese and South Korean markets. We handled the complexity of local retrieval and standardized the metadata, delivering these new regions in the same unified format as their European data.
3. Longitudinal Consistency: We ensured that despite the differing reporting standards in Asia, the historical depth remained consistent, allowing for "apples-to-apples" comparison of innovation trends between a German automotive giant and a Korean battery supplier.

The Result EconSight successfully expanded the scope of their investment intelligence products to cover key Asian tech hubs without hiring a single data engineer. By relying on FinancialReports to handle the "last mile" of global data acquisition, they could focus entirely on their core competency: evaluating technological progress and generating alpha.