Industry Solutions
Crowdflo for Science Parks and Incubators
Use the social web to communicate more effectively, build community (attracting new tenants and keeping existing ones) and incubating new business growth.
How it works?
- Netociety offers fully hosted sites (intranet, extranet or public website dependent on site permissions) at a fixed monthly subscription fee based on numbers of registered users (see below) and no set-up fee:
- Up to 100 users
- Up to 500 users
- Up to 2000 users
- 2000 users and above
- Customisation if needed (design and features other than what comes "out-of-the-box") is charged at a day rate
- Consultancy if needed (system training and organisational design and orientation) is charged at a day rate
What some of our customers say!
We needed a better way to communicate with our tenants. Netociety's solution allowed us to maintain a consistent Corporate Identity (with the University of Surrey) and update information on our web site easily and cost effectively.Malcolm Parry, Director, Surrey Research Park and Chairman, UK Science Park Association
We serve tenants in 13 innovation centres and wanted a central platform we could offer them to manage their own information, collaborate amongst themselves and generally build community. Netociety's solution does this easily.Elaine McMechnie, E-Marketing Manager, Oxford Innovation
Take a look at the brief Oxford Innovation and Surrey Research Park demo videos at left. Also look at our feature list which includes the bespoke features we developed for Science Parks and Incubators. Contact us if if you want to find out more.
COMMUNICATION Using Netociety's
social web software, allow tenants and/or staff to easily maintain
profile/contact info in a secure and shared online environment.
Communicate directly and non-invasively with tenants there, about your
offerings and factors that effect them. Save time, money and hassle. Even use the platform as an
advertising vehicle for suppliers and earn revenue. Finally, bring in
the best of the social web with Twitter integration, YouTube video's,
etc,
COMMUNITIES Want to attract new
tenants and build loyalty with existing ones? Offer them added value
benefits like the chance to connect online and build
relationships/community with other companies and people in the centre or
park. More tangible benefits can also be reaped when people connect to
find expertise, share knowledge, have discussions, innovate and even
manage projects/tasks. Make your community your competitive advantage!
BUSINESS
Tasked with incubating new business activity? Supporting
researchers, startups and large corporates to explore new avenues of
development and growth is key and facilitation via the social web is
increasingly being seen as vital. Balance an effective physical locale
and events with supportive, social
web platforms. Better collaboration, even if only within companies but
increasingly amongst companies, leads to greater innovation and
increased business growth.Comments
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This commenting function has been added to this page mostly so that Netociety can start collecting relevant links and bits of useful information related to the topic of this page, ultimately to grow its body of knowledge. But please feel completely free to add your penny's worth :) So here goes for starters:
- I found this link from the Research Triangle Park's blog - an update on some of the things they are doing in the USA and when it comes to online collaboration and use of social media to communicate they are certainly worth benchmarking. This is very similar to what we have started at Surrey Research Park (SRP) but I have noticed a relative dearth of it over here in the UK for the Science Park community which is a pity since the UK is far from behind in this area in general.
- Below is a little graphic put together for the SRP solution to explain some of the basic functions of the site and hopefully it adds some value here
Comment by Stephen Danelutti on Feb 2, 2010
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This is just a round up of some interesting links I've picked up over the last few weeks, relevant to the topic:
- Sciencefeed Launches Friendfeed-Like Platform For Scientists Not only is the article interesting for its coverage of Sciencefeed's new service but also ResearchGATE's. Shows a definite interest in WEB 2.0 by the Science and Research community.
- Discovered this BusinessWeek video on Science and Research Parks which is interesting and brings to mind the kind of thing that Google have done with their Googleplex in terms of physical environment as well as their work practice and culture. A definite trend that I think is set to continue in light of overcrowded metropolises, the need for better delivery on regional strengths (as I covered in a recent blog post), better incubation of start-ups and development of communities of entrepreneurs (facilitated by social software of course :).
- Here are links to sites or articles that give good coverage on the topic of online community management (for those budding community managers at a Science, Research or Business Park):
Comment by Stephen Danelutti on Feb 22, 2010
- Sciencefeed Launches Friendfeed-Like Platform For Scientists Not only is the article interesting for its coverage of Sciencefeed's new service but also ResearchGATE's. Shows a definite interest in WEB 2.0 by the Science and Research community.
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I'm thrilled to have discovered a line of enquiry that very much endorses the view at Netociety that Science and Research Parks should focus at least as much effort on building networks as they do on the the bricks and mortar side. The article can be found here: New Research Parks Build Networks, Not OfficesThat article in turn lead me onto the original author's site (Anthony Townsend) and a copy of his testimony to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in the USA on “Research Parks and Job Creation” today. That can be found here: Testimony before CongressI will definitely be following up with Anthony to see if there is any way to explore to mutual benefit, the common areas we are both exploring, albeit with us on a more practical side. What would also be useful is to see whether there is any of this kind of research going on in the UK. Onto UKSPA next on that front :)
Comment by Stephen Danelutti on Mar 15, 2010
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I've just discovered another prominent thinker who is covering this beat (amongst other): Visiting Scholar, UC-Berkeley, Dir. of Research, CERC, Duke University, Sr. Research Assoc Harvard Law School, Columnist, BusinessWeek & Contributor TechCrunch - Vivek Wadhwa (@vwadhwa). His view can pretty much be summarised as "people, not clusters innovate". This article on Lessons from a New Industry Cluster in India touches on that perspective in addition to covering some other very interesting aspects. He has also just published a new article on BusinessWeek that elaborates: Top-Down Tech Clusters Often Lack Key Ingredients
Comment by Stephen Danelutti on Apr 17, 2010