| Companies rely more every day on the Internet, sharing a lot of information to their customers but also their investors and their associates. Most companies share information such as products, services, partnerships, and research and development activities on their website. All this information is much analytical opportunities provided that we can retrieve and interpret.;In this context, is the content of a website can be enough to conduct a study on innovation and commercialization?;Websites are sources of information available and accessible to everyone. The majority of companies with a website, the coverage of an Internet-based study is an advantage.;For our research on the commercialization of nanotechnology in Canada, we recover as many data on websites of Canadian companies listed by various sources as having activities in nanotechnology. From these data we cluster companies according to their nanotechnology field using a list of keywords from scientific papers to estimate the level of advancement of Canadian companies in nanotechnology research.;Finally thanks to several indicators of innovation and marketing we describe the current state of nanotechnology in the Canadian industry. |
