It does not help if UK organisations are entitled to funding if they face difficulties in joining consortia in the first place.
DG Research has put effort into linking so-called small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the publicly-funded research programmes, hoping to create synergy and expansion: an example is SMEs-Go-Health [ 26], a coordinating organisation providing support for "research-intensive, high technology SMEs" to join research consortia.
It aims to build on its nuclear expertise by joining future consortia to replace ageing nuclear-power plants.
Throughout the period, the firm was also quietly building a portfolio of minority shareholdings in other, largely European operators, usually by joining bidding consortia for new licences as they became available in markets ranging from France to Malta.
Foreign investors may also join local bidders' consortia, although an outright sale to a foreign shipbuilder is unlikely as Daewoo operates a defense business, analysts said.
Ministers claim widespread support on the basis that thousands of GPs have signed up to join 140 pathfinder consortia covering half the population.
Under the government's plan, some $127 billion a year — about 80 percent of the total health care budget — would be handed directly to the country's 42,000 general practitioners, who would join together into consortia that would negotiate to buy treatment from hospitals and specialists.
Multiple partners join in international consortia that operate under the limited timeframe of a specific funding period.
But the new context of North South collaborations often leads to complex arrangements, with multiple partners joining in international consortia that often have an ad hoc structure and operate under the limited timeframe of a specific funding period.
In these consortia, ideally, companies from nutrition, pharma and diagnostics join forces in a pre-competitive way.
Large research groups have recently joined forces and formed consortia to tackle the difficult problems of how to experimentally investigate connections in the brain and how to analyze and make sense of the enormous amount of data that arises in the process.
