At *Research, we’re all about knowledge and innovation.
To start with, those two words are how we think of a piece of research—it’s an innovation in the world of knowledge.
They also define the two worlds we bring together—the world of knowledge in universities and the world of innovation in companies and society.
And they define the materials we work with. The articles we write, the data we compile—this is the knowledge we create. And we deliver it with innovation, using technology in smart ways.
And knowledge and innovation describe what we are, less a publishing company these days, more a hybrid of think tank and tech.
We take a global view. We range not only across the geography of continents but across the landscape of disciplines, taking in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. And we turn on this world the same quizzical, dispassionate, rigorous gaze that researchers focus on their disciplines.
What we see is that fragmentation is the enemy. It’s the barriers between people and institutions, divisions between disciplines, siloed software and the compartmentalisation of knowledge itself that slows us down. Clear these walls away and we can make the future, faster.
So we want to bring together research, researchers and the wider world. But not as so many have before, by colonising a space, planting our flag on it, putting up walls and extracting rents. In reality, that just means more fragmentation.
Instead, we choose the path of co-creation, which is like partnership but less rigid. We already have 300 of the world’s leading universities and research organisations as our customers. Let’s work with them to defragment the research world. Let’s build up a network of strong institutions where knowledge flows freely.
You can sum up this approach in three words.
Knowledge Innovation Network.
This is our vision.