Take my content – please! – The service-based business model of SureChem

Nicko Goncharoff
SureChem (Digital Science)

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Nicko Goncharoff is Head of Text Mining and oversees the development and deployment of Digital Science text mining technologies within Macmillan as well as the operation of SureChem, a scientific patent database business acquired by Macmillan in late 2009. Nicko co-founded SureChem, and prior to that Reel Two, which developed and sold text mining solutions for the life sciences and was sold in 2007. Nicko’s previous career was in financial journalism and travel writing (the former helping fund the latter). His interests include Chinese language, bluegrass guitar and faster-than-light travel, along with the more accessible, earthbound variety.