text: Research activity can, however, in principle benefit from uberisation. Science is increasingly dependent on collaboration, and outsourcing specialised tasks is an integral part of the process. For example, Science Exchange matches clients outsourcing experiments with service-providing labs through a slick online platform. “We took the idea of what Uber had done to transportation and applied it to contract research organisations (CROs), core facilities and other scientists,” explains Dan Knox, co-founder and chief operating officer at Science Exchange, Paolo Alto, California, USA.