Powerful Scientific Storytelling

 

Bring your innovation to life.

Work with award-winning storytellers.

We create content that communicates the essence of the innovations, technologies, and products of our clients who are active in fields with a scientific or technological core. This makes their brands visible, engages customers and helps reach new target markets.

Our storytellers are scientists. They have created award-winning documentary films and published books that reach millions of people worldwide.

Manuel Stagars is the founder of Story-Driven Science. He is a former senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), published scientific author (Springer Nature, Wiley, Palgrave Macmillan, Emerald), serial startup founder, award-winning film music composer, and award-winning film director.

Manuel has a natural grasp of complex subject matter. He holds a degree in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE), the CFA and the CAIA designations, and he is also an Energy Risk Professional (ERP). His documentary films about fintech, blockchain technology, and deep tech have won numerous international prizes and have screened all around the world. He has guest lectured about scientific storytelling at universities in Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, China, and Harvard University in the United States. 

By founding Story-Driven Science, Manuel pursues his vision to make fascinating and complex topics in science accessible to wide audiences. His team works with global production companies, distribution platforms, and academic institutions to make the biggest possible impact for clients and their innovations.

Our Services — Your Advantage

We bring your innovation and your brand to life. We work with you over the entire content journey, from concept, production, to distribution.

Discovery and Development

In consultation with you, we sharpen your key messages for communication on all channels and create a content production and distribution strategy around them. We support you in the decision to make or buy in all stages of development and production.

Films and Documentary

Film can be so much more than an explainer video. We create high-end films and documentary content about your innovation, technology, science, products and services from preproduction to final master. Our captivating filmmaking techniques engage your customers emotionally. The same video content takes on many forms as long-form, full-length building blocks, short-form and snippets, each with their individual distribution platforms. Our approach to video provides intelligent content for your online and offline communication with a life of many years.

Ghostwriting

Text is key in communication. We save you time ghostwriting articles, whitepapers, scientific papers, and even full-fledged books that tell your story and make an impact. Benefit from our experience working with major publishing houses. Our professionals ghostwrite your story in various formats with minimal time comittment from you and maximum impact with your target audience. We work with your marketing team to create the launch strategy for your insights and make the most of your readers’ engagement.

Photography

We grow your library of image assets with stunning documentary photography of your processes, your team, your mission, and your adventures on the journey to making the world a better place. Your individual library supports every campaign to make a lasting impression with your customers, your peers and your competition.

Audio and Podcasts

Podcasts and audio stories capture customers on the go and open up completely new communication channels for you. They position you as an enabler in the field and create an expert platform around your brand. We develop and produce your high-end podcast from beginning to finish. Our experts can even host your podcast full-service.

Tell Your Story.

All of our services are available on-demand or on a subscription basis. Talk to our experts today to understand how we can tell your story together in the most effective way and the least time spent for you.

Network

We have have worked the following academic institutes, platforms, publishers, and partners.

What Our Clients Say

“Story-Driven Science developed a MasterClass format with our technical knowledge that we were never able to share before. We now have a tool to communicate complex processes with our partners and attract new hires. I don’t know anybody else who could have made this happen.”

– Founder and CEO of a biotech company

“We are so excited about the amazing films Story-Driven Science has created for us. They completely changed the way we think about phrasing our messages (think ‘benefits not features’) and how we communicate with our customers.”

– Communications Director at a Sustainable Energy Investment Fund

“Story-Driven Science has brought our technology to life with films, a podcast, images and a whitepaper. They have opened completely new avenues for us. Our content now sparks questions in the minds of potential customers.”

– CMO at a Blockchain/DLT Company

Knowledge Base

Dive deeper into our approach to scientific storytelling.

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