Abstract:In order to promote more frontal, proactive, efficient and intelligent big data services of industrial think tanks in China, especially to better transform big data computing power into strategic decision support capability, and to empower the digital transformation and upgrading of China's industry and the enhancement of international competitiveness, this paper studies how to realize the research mode and process reform of industrial think tanks by means of big data methods. Industrial think tanks have particularities in strategic objectives, management priorities, service objects and social functions, this paper reviews the related research of big data methods for industrial think tanks, and concludes the unique methodology logic of big data for industrial think tanks. From the perspective of methodology, big data for industrial think tanks is based on the functional requirements with policies, ideas and voices, guided by the basic theories of industrial competitive intelligence, big data methods and think tank research, which covers the research methods and tools of data, analysis and decision-making. From the perspective of specific methods, the big data methods for industrial think tanks provide strong supports in these application scenes such as industrial chain construction and competitive intelligence demand discovery, industrial technology roadmap development and technology evaluation, industrial policy analysis and policy theme identification, enterprise competitiveness evaluation and innovation strategy layout, industrial market analysis and development prospect prediction. At the same time, combined with the case of China's industrial think tank big data center, this paper takes low-carbon industry as an example to explain the application scenes of big data methods for industrial think tanks. Finally, in order to further optimize the products supply quality and improve the decision-making services efficiency of industrial think tanks, it is proposed to focus on improving the big data construction of industrial think tanks from the aspects of innovating big data methods thinking, improving big data construction and analysis ability, cultivating big data talents, and optimizing big data environment.