The consortium, set up by students with the backing of several labor unions, now has 45 universities as members.
A task force has been drawing up ideas for a pharmaceutical industry effort somewhat analogous to Sematech, a consortium set up by the semiconductor industry.
Regulators were told that a consortium set up to own and manage Aurora would be independent of Crédit Lyonnais, as both federal and state laws required.
Government officials in Turkey and oil industry executives said three other international companies were close to joining the Western consortium set up to build the pipeline.
On Tuesday, Intel announced a similar arrangement with Symbian, a consortium set up by Ericsson, Psion, Nokia and Matsushita Electric Industrial that has created an operating system for wireless devices.
This deal, coming after a similar agreement last year between Palm and Nokia, could be a blow to Symbian, a consortium set up by Ericsson, Psion, Nokia and Matsushita Electric Industrial.
Had it worked, private investors would have reaped shed loads of money: but when Metronet, the consortium set up to run the scheme, went bust, the cost was borne, of course, by the taxpayer.
One regional consortium set up to help GPs' commissioning groups, the Arden & Greater East Midlands Partnership, paid KPMG more than a quarter of a million pounds a month for the first six months of 2014.
Bidders for Northumbrian include at least two private investment groups with bank backing, as well as a consortium set up by Deutsche Bank that wants to resell 20percentt of the company to public investors in a stock offering.
Regulators were told that the consortium set up to own and manage Aurora would be independent of Crédit Lyonnais, as both federal and state laws required.In this section Dead, or just resting?
