The 2017 Winner of the Year in the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Startup Shootout was MyScienceWork, a startup organisation that serves the whole scholarly community with services and products optimized by strong semantic algorithms and one of the largest databases of research content and profiles.
MyScienceWork, represented by COO, Laurence Bianchini, competed with three other contestants for the title: Yewno, represented by Ruth Pickering, co-founder and chief strategy and business development officer; Code Ocean, with CEO Simon Adar presenting; and Protocols.io, represented by CEO Lenny Teytelman.
The judging panel comprised of Kent R. Anderson, founder of Caldera Publishing Solutions, which provides strategic and business consulting for scientific and scholarly publishers; James Phimister, Principal, PHI Perspectives, a management consulting firm focused on supporting organic and inorganic growth for clients in information and science based markets; and Jason Rollins, Senior Director of Innovation, Clarivate Analytics, which owns and operates a collection of leading subscription-based services focused on scientific and academic research, patent analytics and regulatory standards, pharmaceutical and biotech intelligence, trademark protection, domain brand protection and intellectual property management.
MyScienceWork received a plaque from NFAIS and an invitation to present in an upcoming NFAIS Webinar.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a world-leading provider of metadata services, abstraction, indexing, entity extraction and knowledge organisation models (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies).
