The platform provides for students and researchers to post and share research ideas that they are interested in working on or are already engaged with. Rygbee will introduce open problems on their platforms which young researchers and students in that discipline can work on. Additionally, this will help senior researchers to search for potential young talent for their research projects.

Rygbee aims to:

• Facilitate interaction and collaboration among researchers, students and funding agencies by harnessing the power of the internet.
• Facilitate scientific research across the world, by enabling students, researchers, and funding agencies find each other based on their current research interests and project statements.

The platform provides for students and researchers to post and share research ideas that they are interested in working on or are already engaged with. Rygbee will introduce open problems on their platforms which young researchers and students in that discipline can work on. Additionally, this will help senior researchers to search for potential young talent for their research projects. The system will also generate a personalised news feed comprising of recent papers, upcoming conferences, new research problems, invitations to join projects, details on research grants and call for proposals. It will enable project team members to collaboratively execute their research by sharing files, version controlling, conversing, and writing documents together. Rygbee provides for confidentiality of research materials submitted and also ensures that all collaborations go through proper IPR agreements and closures.

The potential users of the Rygbee Platform are:

• Universities and colleges
• Government research
• laboratories
• Corporate research bodies
• Funding agencies

The potential market for the service across the world is 18000+ research universities, 150 million university students and 6 million+ university faculties. ResearchGate and Academia.edu also offer online collaborative services for research projects but are not India centric and is not used as much by academicians, scholars and education institutes of the country. While ResearchGate follows a policy of wait and watch to find potential collaborations, Rygbee actively searches the right kind of people, who are open to partner on projects of common interest, taking adequate measures for privacy control and IPR agreements in a systematic manner. Rygbee intends to reach universities, students and organisations across the world, but focuses primarily on India to provide a platform which will help in searching, connecting and collaborating in the research space.