Research Management and Innovation Teams

Solutions to support impactful research

Springer Nature’s editors see research from every discipline and from all around the world. From this unique, high-altitude view of global research, Springer Nature has developed a suite of comprehensive, strategic support services specifically for research management and innovation teams.

You’ll find these organised in three areas below, reflecting phases of research planning: Analyse and strategise; plan and perform; and assess and communicate. With these tools and services, research management and innovation teams can guide their institutions’ research direction with authority, attract key researchers and funding, and facilitate breakthroughs that Advance Discovery.

Leverage our expertise

Analyse and strategise

Discover research trends and insights using data. Define your institution’s strategies to create the framework and foundations for your discoveries.

Plan and perform

Help your researchers to plan and conduct their strongest research with recruitment, training, collaboration and editing tools.

Assess and communicate

Monitor the impact and assess the performance of your labs; and help your researchers and your institution to share its discoveries.

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WHITE PAPER: A Changing Landscape in Collaboration

This white paper brings together insights from five experts within Springer Nature into how the landscape of research collaboration has transformed in recent years, and the ways in which institutions have been developing their practices to both drive and adapt to these changes.

WHITE PAPER: Future Proof Your Institution Growth in 4 Strategic Steps

How can leaders of research institutions — university presidents, chancellors, provosts, VPs of research, deans of graduate and postdoc offices, and department heads — offset the impact of possible funding and income changes and preserve a position of trusted leader within their field?

Researchers still need more support for data sharing in 2022

This year’s State of Open Data survey continues to show the need for institutions, libraries, publishers and funders to support data sharing practices and principles more. There are now high levels of support for open data and open science practices by researchers around the world

Can AI help us manage information overload?

The digital age has given us unprecedented access to information. Researchers can now obtain far more research into their subject areas than ever before. But how much is too much? And could AI hold the key to tackling information overload in research?

Introducing Nature Research Intelligence: Helping organisations achieve their research goals

Demonstrating research impact and setting a comprehensive strategy are critical tasks for any research organization, but gathering trustworthy insights can be difficult and time-consuming. To support organizations in reaching their strategic goals, Nature has recently developed Research Intelligence - a new suite of solutions

How can institutions help researchers navigate the publication process?

Publication is a key part of both a researcher’s career development and the way the impact of a research institution is measured. Unfortunately, researchers aren’t always aware of how to give their research the best chance of being accepted.