How to become a partner ?

Types of partnerships

The platform makes a distinghuish between three types of partnerships who can submit information to the platform:

1. CONTENT PARTNER, (FREE !!) for commercial companies only.

2. KEY PARTNER, for commercial companies only.

3. RESEARCH PARTNER, (FREE !!) for universities and non-profit research institutes only.

For more information about the differences between these partnerships, click here.

Content or research partner

The procedure for becoming a 'Content' or 'Research' partner consists of three steps:

STEP 1:
Perform a free sign-up via the 'add your company&products' link at the upper right of the webiste. You have to fill in here your company details, your profile and are also asked to categorise your organisation under Industry (commercial companies) or Research (Universities and non-profit research institutes).
STEP 2:
You will receive an email containing username and password which you can use to get access to 'your account' on the platform (via the 'login' button).
STEP 3:
Once you are logged on to 'your account', you can make use of the basic services of the platform for free: e.g. make standard product announcements, post your company profile and activities, submit News&Analyses items or upload links to your press releases on the business brief portal.

You can also make use of some extended services after you have bought online credits via the credit system. This allows you to give your product enhanced visibility by posting it as a product highlight, enhance your company visibility by upgrading your free partnership to Key partner, post job announcements.

Key partner

Industry members always first sign-up as a content partner (for free). Once logged-in at 'your account' as content partner you can buy credits via a credit system and upgrade your profile to become Key partner using the 'edit your profile' button.