The D.Lab Experts Research Hub operates in open mode. We publish our own research and open space for researchers, independent scientists, and frontier minds to bring studies, data, methodology, or to propose joint investigation on the lines of our agenda. Co-authorship, explicit credit, exposed methodology.
The same stance applies to consulting. When a client project needs expertise we don't have, we bring in partners with explicit credit, never anonymously. Private company, collaborative culture.
Choose what fits your research moment. Each mode goes through the same methodological review before becoming a public publication.
You have already run the study and want a stable audience and attribution. We do a methodological review and, if accepted, publish with explicit co-authorship and exposed reasoning.
One of our agenda lines (market, tech foresight, competition, or decision) interests you and you want to build the study together. Scope, timeline, and division of work negotiated at the start.
New datasets, instrumented techniques, analysis frameworks. We use them with credit, document the provenance, and, when it makes sense, return value via joint publication.
You have depth in one of the agenda lines and want to contribute technical review of research before publication. Named attribution optional, methodology always traceable. It is also the door to the consultant bench: recurring contributors and reviewers, with senior curation, can be tapped for client engagements with explicit credit.
You describe the context, the collaboration mode, and, if it already exists, the current material.
We reply within 3 business days: fit with the agenda, methodological questions, next steps.
A 45-minute call to align scope, authorship, attribution, timeline, and what is public versus reserved.
Methodological review, joint editing, and publication on the Research Hub with explicit credit and DOI-ready.
The more context you bring, the faster we reply. But even a raw idea goes through screening.
Send your collaboration proposal straight to our inbox — tell us the context, the front you’re interested in, and the format. We reply personally.
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