- Dimensions Analytics is a great database for publications, grants, and patents. You can limit your search to MIT outputs using the ‘Research Organization’ filter.
- Patents: PatSnap is a good patent database that lets you filter for MIT patents. The MIT Technology Licensing Office also has a searchable list of relevant MIT inventions. Dimension Analytics also lets you search for MIT patents.
- The MIT Industrial Liaison Program has a searchable database of short profiles of individual research groups and projects. You can also search MIT News & Events Calendar for researcher profiles, seminars, and talks related to your topic area.
- Funding awards: NSF, ARPA-E, Dept of Energy all have searchable databases of funding awards. Dimensions Analytics also lets you search for funding awards.
- To visualize clusters of researchers who frequently work together on a topic, you can explore the MIT Collaboration Tool
The MIT librarians (especially Howard Silver and Nicholas Albaugh) are also available to help with these kinds of explorations.