bussiness model
1. Key Partners
Media companies
Social Network Promoters
Database of Things Providers
electronic access to a DB freedom to transform the dataset
Product Companies
Socializing the use of quads pay for the ability to create quads
2. Key Activities
Driving free user to site
3. Value Proposition
To help researchers in poor countries interact and collaborate with researchers around the globe through social networking by turning engagement metrics into revenue metrics
to reflect about global issues
4. Customer Relationships
5. Customer Segments
Researchers
Academic Indipendent In Industry (R&S)
Post-graduate and PhD students
6. Key Resources
Platform (website)
App technology mobile
Online Data collection
online library, online journals, blogs to cordinate (e-)books, videos, streaming
7. Channels
Social networking
Mobile technology
Advertising
Attending international conferences
8. Cost Structure
Cost of a general research on the stakeholders’ needs:
$20,000 (one time cost)
Estimated costs:
$130,000
The maintenance of effective use of the website:
$40,000 (whole implementation )
Cost for study, designing and implementation of the website and other devices:
$10,000 (one time cost )
For promotion of the community and the public relation build up connections with several and different stakeholders (calls, meeting, etc.):
$40,000 (whole implementation)
Variable costs:
$20,000
9. Revenue Streams
We provide the customer with a web-platform where users can join to share/exchange scientific publications, ideas and knowledge through forums, blog, video, social networks, and media. The new environment, supported by technologies, will allow the researchers to generate, aggregate, distribute content and to collaborate collectively.
Revenue generation:
Revenue will be generated through: - Sponsors: Leverage the attractiveness of this particular stakeholder group by having very unobtrusive advertisements or sponsors. The sponsors would likely be larger research institutions interested in recruiting researchers, recruitment firms, and other service providers in the research space
