Case Study: Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) advances scientific research with Dropbox

How collaborating in Dropbox helps NICO advance scientific research

The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) at Northwestern University needed a better way to bridge silos and manage collaborative research across multiple file types, while keeping sensitive work secure before publication. As a multidisciplinary research hub, NICO turned to Dropbox to support its growing need for fast, straightforward team collaboration and reliable file sharing.

Dropbox helped NICO centralize research materials, sync CSV, MySQL, Word, PDF, BibTeX, and XML files, and protect confidential data with strong security and recovery features. The impact was clear: Dropbox’s collaboration network made it easier for researchers to work together, and when 41,000 files were accidentally deleted, Dropbox support restored them within hours.

Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)

Brian Uzzi

Co-Director