Faith groups, academy chains, parents and teachers are among those who are now seeing their bids become a reality, alongside private schools transferring to the state sector.
The best sides in the Champions League have tended to contain a core group of academy or homegrown players who have progressed together.
Details will be hammered out by a working group of academy presidents or their equivalents from France, India, Germany, and Brazil, says biochemist Bruce Alberts, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
The Independent suggested Mr Gove's preferred candidate for the role was Theodore Agnew, the head of The Inspiration Trust - which runs a group of academy schools in Norfolk - and a Conservative donor.
Andy Tennant, head of performance said: "Cricket Scotland has always taken great pride in its teams having a majority of home-grown cricketers, who are products of our excellent age group and academy system.
Another Tory donor, Theodore Agnew, who set up a group of academies in Norfolk, was believed to have been favoured by Mr Gove.
Such schools "lack the capacity" to take on the entrepreneurial opportunities offered by branching out as academies on their own, and thus would need either to remain with the local authority or to join a sponsored group of academies.
Ofsted should be given new powers to inspect groups of academy schools run by the same organisation, Lib Dem minister David Laws has said.
What methods are beneficial to what groups?" The academy said the two prize winners' work sparked a "flourishing field of research" and helped improve the performance of many markets.
This draft report, obtained by the BBC's Newsnight, is from the Education Funding Agency which can investigate providers running groups of academies.
The proposals include: Allow free schools set up by parents and community groups, and academies - state schools outside local authority control - to give priority to children eligible for free schools meals (those whose parents earn less than £16,000 a year).
