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David Younghusband, Information Specialist, Unilever

Kathey Towler, Technical Information Services , Unilever

Chris James, Marketing Manager, Elsevier

How does Unilever use SciVal to help

accelerate innovation?

25 Feb 2016

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House keeping

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• Submit your questions at any time by clicking on the “Q&A” icon in the top menu bar

• We will go through the questions at the end of the session

• There will be some polling, so be prepared to answer some questions!

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SciVal and Unilever David Younghusband Kathey Towler 25-Feb-2016, Webinar

About Unilever

“Make cleanliness

commonplace”

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UNILEVER IS A GLOBAL COMPANY

EUROPE

● €13.6 BILLION TURNOVER

● 2.6% UNDERLYING

VOLUME GROWTH

● 27% OF GROUP

TURNOVER

ASIA, AFRICA, CENTRAL &

EASTERN EUROPE

● €22.4 BILLION TURNOVER

● 3.0% UNDERLYING VOLUME GROWTH

● 41% OF GROUP TURNOVER

THE AMERICAS

● €17.3 BILLION TURNOVER

● 0.4% UNDERLYING

VOLUME GROWTH

● 32% OF GROUP

TURNOVER

2015 TURNOVER = €53.3 BN

We make many of the world’s favourite brands

• To double the size of our

business, whilst reducing

• Our environmental

footprint and increasing

our positive social impact

Positive Social Impact

Double the Business

Reduce Environmental

Footprint

Our vision

• Help more than 1 billion people improve

their health & well-being

• Halve environmental footprint of

our products

• Enhance the livelihoods of millions

of people

3 Big Goals

About R&D at Unilever

• €1 billion annual investment

• >6,000 R&D professionals

• 6 key R&D sites; 92 locations around the globe

• Portfolio of >20,000 patents and patent applications

>300 new patent applications filed each year; Most

active patent applicant in UK in 2013

• 64 research publications in 2015

R&D facts & figures

Our 6 key R&D sites

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. . . .

Shanghai, CN

Bangalore, IN

Port Sunlight, UK

Colworth, UK

Vlaardingen, NL

Trumbull, US

Bangalore

India

Colworth

UK

Port Sunlight

UK

Shanghai

China

Trumbull

US

Vlaardingen

Netherlands

# FTE 292 513 768 415 411 703

Nationalities 4 19 23 7 17 52

% Female 32% 46% 37% 50% 42% 41%

PhD 50 125 196 91 79 170

Professorships 1 13 3 n.a. none 9

Recruiting

Universities

Calcutta

Jadavpur

Anna

Cambridge

Birmingham

Imperial

Liverpool

Manchester

Birmingham

Fudan

East China

Shanghai

Cornell

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Wageningen

Maastricht

Delft

More about our sites & our people

Working with others

•14 Top Universities

•18 Global Partners

SciVal and Unilever David Younghusband

Kathey Towler

BENCHMARKING – why does Unilever publish?

BENCHMARKING – what does Unilever publish?

Why do we need to measure the impact?

BENCHMARKING - impact of our Publications

Metrics

Worth

Affiliations

Benefits

effectiveness

Justify

Exposure

Quality dollars

collaboration

money GBP Actions

data

Measurable

Usage

Co-Author volume

Citations

ROI Investment Influence

compelling

capital

measuring

Euros

Quantified

management

Work

effective

Impact

Decision objective

cash

Success

contacts

Value for money account

help

Trends improvement

Bibliometrics

Relevance Networks

Outputs

Usage

Insights

Relationships Opportunities

Assessment

BENCHMARKING – internal & external

Work with organisations that have expertise, credibility, independence.

• Scrutiny and acceptance of methods or models

• Independent peer review of supporting scientific literature to scientific claims for

products

• Improve the scientific understanding and influence opinion formers, regulatory bodies

and legislation

COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE – why we collaborate?

COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE – do we collaborate?

COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE –collaborations with P&G

Finding external expertise, technology partners, potential groups or individuals to work with

OPEN INNOVATION

Coming

together of

minds

Two heads are

better than one

PUBLICATION STRATEGY

Thank you

• QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

Polling Results

What industry are you in?

Based on 68 responses

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Corporate Academic Government Other

What industry are you in?

Do you have access to SciVal or other metrics tools?

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Yes, SciVal and other tools Yes, other tools No, I dont have access to metrictools

Yes, SciVal only

Do you have access to SciVal or other metrics tools?

Based on 52 responses

If other tools, which ones?

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Scopus InCites Symplectic Web of Science Alt Metrics Excel Vantage Point Custom Code

If other tools, which ones?

Based on 20 responses

If you have access to SciVal, what do you use it for?

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Report or metricanalyses for senior

management

To identifycollaborationopportunities

To support fundingapplications

Recruitment andrentiion decisions

Other

If you have access to SciVal, what do you use it for?

Based on 35 responses

• Publishing strategy

• All of the above

On average, how much time do you spend working with metrics (using tools and running analyses)?

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Based on 35 responses

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