As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals. ResearchGate, a Berlin-based startup that provides a professional network for the scientific communit…
Ijad Madisch started ResearchGate in 2008 to change the scientific method, and depending on where you sit, that either is or isn't as ambitious as it sounds. Madisch isn't on a crusade to overturn the techniques scientists use to investigate and systematically observe phenomena, so much as the tool…