We see Knowledge as the cornerstone upon which a much better world becomes possible.
This year, 1.8 million articles were published and this number increases by 4% every year. This deluge of data creates an ever increasing division of academic labor and forces scientists to become overspecialized.
This movement seems damaging to us, because we believe that transdiciplinary knowledge favours the birth of new paradigms within the different disciplines.
Our wish is to allow scientists to have an easier access to overviews of the literature on a question, on a field, or on a discipline. By developing OmniScience, we hope to facilitate access to a quick understanding of the different issues, controversies, concepts and methods of a research theme and thus create more distance and interdisciplinarity.
Making science more accessible is one of the main ways to ensure that it benefits the greatest number. That's why we develop our tool and also why we're supportive of the open science movement which commits to provide science to everyone.
Our tool will empower those who care about truth. Through it, we expect to make the world a better place.
Finally, we think that there are gaps to be bridged between academia and the rest of the world.
There's a clear difference between the pace of the scientific research and decision-making. Whereas decisionmakers have a few months to take decisions, science takes years to give answers. We think that OmniScience is a tool that could greatly bridge this gap, giving an overview of the scientific knowledge on a question at anytime, which is what decisionmakers need.
There's a mismatch between fundamental research and industrial applications. It's often too costly for entrepreneurs to keep up with the literature on their industry. Through instantaneous literature reviews, it will become much quicker to dig into a field and thus it will greatly decrease the cost for entrepreneurs to evaluate and understand a market or a technology.