LeapSpace demo and roadmap for Corporate R&D

LeapSpace helps scientists and engineers explore published research, compare evidence and develop a rationale for their next R&D step. Its discovery, inspection and drafting tools support work from an initial question to a technical recommendation, with you directing the investigation. Watch the corporate innovation perspectiveopens in new tab/window.

Research steps you can examine show how a search was approached. Linked sources let you inspect support, while Claim Radar brings additional research into view. These tools help you question assumptions, examine counterevidence and decide whether to qualify a claim or investigate another direction. See Adrian Raudaschl’s product visionopens in new tab/window.

LeapSpace is designed for research questions grounded in scientific literature. It brings Scopus records and licensed full text together with cited synthesis, source inspection, comparison and drafting. Corporate R&D teams can investigate a scientific question and examine the evidence supporting their work within the same workspace.

LeapSpace brings together full text from ScienceDirectopens in new tab/window, selected licensed full text from leading publishers and societies, and Scopus abstracts and metadata. This publisher-neutral scientific foundation combines full-text depth with broad research coverage, helping Corporate R&D teams investigate questions across disciplines.

Publisher-neutral discovery ranks research for relevance to the task rather than publisher ownership. For Corporate R&D, that supports investigating a question across disciplines and publishing sources. The reference list lets you see which sources informed a response.

The independent LeapSpace Advisory Board provides guidance on discovery algorithms, publisher neutrality, explainable outputs and responsible AI development. Its role is to scrutinize how the workspace evolves. It does not assess individual user claims or replace the scientist’s or engineer’s review of the evidence.

Standard Search builds a search plan from your question, then uses meaning-based and keyword searches across Scopus records and available full text. It returns a cited synthesis with visible processing steps. Use it to orient around a target, material or technical problem and identify sources for closer reading.

Use Deep Research for complex, multi-step questions that require synthesis across many documents. Deep Research uses agentic AI to investigate the question and produce a detailed report. Review the research steps, study scope, key findings, assumptions and limitations, conclusions and recommendations to assess how the evidence relates to your research or development question.

Explore topics helps you frame an investigation in natural language. Describe the goal, application and constraints, then follow up on unfamiliar mechanisms, alternative approaches or gaps in the literature. Choose Standard Search or Deep Research for the depth your question needs.

A personal Project keeps papers, supported uploads and related conversations together around an investigation. Add papers by DOI and upload PDF or DOCX files, then search the project collection alone or alongside wider LeapSpace content. This keeps continuing work organized around its chosen sources.

Discover expertsopens in new tab/window uses topic-based matching across Scopus author profiles and published work. Open the author preview and matching papers to examine relevant contributions and affiliations. Use this evidence to develop a shortlist for specialist input or collaboration, then confirm current fit and availability before outreach.

Find fundingopens in new tab/window searches curated opportunities relevant to your topic. For Corporate R&D, funding information adds a signal of where research attention is developing. Use it alongside scientific literature to explore areas targeted for investment, the funding organizations involved and potential research directions. Confirm current calls, deadlines and organizational eligibility with the funder.

Reading Assistantopens in new tab/window responds to questions about a ScienceDirect article or book chapter using that document’s text. Select its references to highlight supporting passages. It can help you examine a method or result; availability depends on full-text access and applicable ScienceDirect entitlement.

Compare Tables places papers cited in a Standard Search response into rows. Add columns for what matters to your investigation, such as materials, methods, experimental conditions, performance measures, or reported outcomes. It extracts those details from available source content. "Information not found" can reflect source depth or extraction limits.

Select a citation to open Reference Details and inspect the source record, abstract or permitted excerpt. Link to statement explains how the claim aligns with that cited source. Check whether the claim preserves the source’s meaning and limits before reusing it in a brief or recommendation.

Claim Radar searches for relevant Scopus-indexed research abstracts and assesses their relationship to a claim. It surfaces supporting, contradicting and mixed evidence, alongside key insights and source records you can inspect. Run it on a response claim, Writing Coach assertions or selected Word text, then inspect the returned sources.

Writing Coach brings a draft editor and conversational research assistant together. Use it to examine reasoning, seek relevant literature and identify what needs substantiation in a scientific or technical draft. Claim Radar can assess assertions within the draft. You choose which suggested changes to accept, revise or reject.

Highlight a passage and choose Check for Claims from the LeapSpace ribbon or context menu. The Word add-in extracts claims from that selection and lists them in a task pane. Select a claim to inspect research evidence alongside your draft, then decide whether to revise or qualify it.