Naturwissenschaften

Name

Naturwissenschaften

Website

https://naturwissenschaften.ch

Company type

Private

Short description

Naturwissenschaften operates the naturwissenschaften.ch portal, a Swiss science information platform based in Bern that informs visitors about Swiss science organizations and their knowledge activities, operating under the SCNAT wissen identity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Science Information Portal

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAGAGAG

Scientific & Laboratory Reference (Chemistry, Biology, Physics; Methods & Protocols)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

SECONDARYBPAIAAAK

Science, Technology & Innovation Administration (National R&D Policy)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Central/Federal Government Administration

Keywords

• Science information portal
• Scientific organizations
• Natural sciences
• Research knowledge
• Science communication

Headquarters

HQ city

Bern

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations

Core offering

Naturwissenschaften operates a Swiss science information portal (naturwissenschaften.ch) that aggregates and disseminates information about Swiss science organizations and their activities, serving as a knowledge hub for the natural sciences community in Switzerland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SCNAT wissen (Science Portal)

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Emerging players

• ScienceDaily: Aggregator of science news and reference content from universities and research organizations; comparable to Naturwissenschaften.ch as a curated information portal that surfaces activities and findings of science organizations to a general audience.
• Academia.edu: Web platform for academics to share and discover scholarly papers; comparable as an information-discovery and dissemination channel for natural sciences researchers, with overlapping audience to a Swiss national science portal.
• Mendeley (Elsevier): Reference manager and academic social network; comparable as an adjacent scientific information and discovery tool used by the same natural-sciences researcher audience.

Regional players

• ETH Zurich: Leading Swiss university that publishes extensive scientific research, news, and educational content; comparable as a Swiss-based source of natural sciences information and as a benchmark for institutional science portals.
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Principal Swiss funding body for scientific research that also curates research results and science-policy information; comparable to Naturwissenschaften.ch as a national science information and dissemination channel targeting the Swiss research community.

Broad incumbents

• ResearchGate: Global professional network and information platform for scientists and researchers; comparable to Naturwissenschaften.ch as a web-based hub for sharing and discovering scientific knowledge, but operating at vastly larger international scale.
• Nature (Springer Nature): Leading international publisher of peer-reviewed scientific research and reference content across the natural sciences; comparable as a high-credibility scientific reference and learning-content destination serving a similar audience of scientists and informed lay readers.
• ScienceDirect (Elsevier): Major platform for scientific and technical reference publishing across disciplines; comparable as a provider of professional scientific reference content and laboratory/technical methods material.
• Google Scholar: Web-scale academic search and discovery platform indexing scholarly literature; comparable as an information-discovery service for the natural sciences research community that could divert traffic from smaller national portals.

Direct peers

• Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT): The Swiss Academy of Sciences umbrella organization whose "SCNAT wissen" branding appears on Naturwissenschaften.ch; directly comparable as a national scientific knowledge and policy platform operating in the same Swiss/CHE market.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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