The creation of news consortia as a long-term replacement to ITV regional news was one of five central recommendations to emerge from Ofcom's PSB review, published in January.
A promising recent advance has been the creation of national consortia aimed at recruiting large cohorts of patients affected by mitochondrial disease.
FORBES identifies several of the issues surrounding the creation of new marketplace consortia by traditional companies ("Herding Cats").
The creation of multinational, multidisciplinary consortia is an approach with great potential to identify and compare real-world practice and relevant outcomes in NICUs.
In many other complex diseases, the creation of large collaborative consortia has enabled highly powered genome-wide association studies that have led to the identification of multiple novel genetic susceptibility loci.
Carter's Digital Britain report in June proposed the creation of independent funded news consortia (IFNC), which would be able to use money from the TV licence fee which is currently used by the BBC to help people make the switch to digital TV.
However the government declined to yield – although it had already done a deal with the Tories which meant that a number of its provisions, including clause 43 and the creation of independent local news consortia, would not be part of the bill.
Dowd also suggested the creation of evidence-based innovation consortia that would facilitate transformational educational innovations, thereby enabling all students to thrive.
The regulator is advocating the creation of so-called independent news consortia to deliver ITV regional news across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by the time of digital switchover in 2012.
A key component for the future success of genetic studies is the creation of large-scale genetic research consortia that permit the study of large numbers of comprehensively assessed subjects.
"We might link up with any number of these different types of consortia," he said.
