What is Market Research?

What do market research/strategic consulting firms look for in an applicant? Let's say you were a twenty-something political analyst with a grad degree in the social sciences and a burning desire to get out of the nonprofit sector as fast as your little...

This year the workshop on Innovation organized during Digital Agenda Assembly- Dublin,  will focus, among other issues, on how to speed up the transfer of research and innovation to the market. It is well known that European excellence in research is...

I graduated with a degree in marketing and want to begin a career in market research. I have applied for entry level market research jobs with no luck. I have taken market research ...show more

Quora has over 1000 followers for "market research" but only 20 for "marketing research" -- what's the difference?

Hi, I am performing consumer research on the lower and middle class consumers in 10+ markets in the emerging markets (eg, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Philippines, Romania, etc).  I will need to choose a company to work with. Please let me know what kind...

I'm trying to set up a web programming/design company (building my business plan to apply for funding from various sources) and I've hit a stumbling block: I have no idea what questions to ask for my market research (I have a few ideas but no actual...

Hello guys, I want to build a tool which does market research for you(such as scrapes potential customer emails, lists up numbers...) Does such a tool currently exists? What features should such a tool have? When you have a magic wand, how should your...

I am thinking of implementing a new idea here in stuttgart. However i am a student and from a foreign country here. What is the best way to study the market and do a market research here before i start implementation, as I am a foreigner and have no...

I am researching the existing landscape for an industry in Japan (a country I know intimately and speak the language). I'm wondering what advice people have for conducting market research for a fairly specific industry vertical. If you were researching...