Towards real-world applications, bacterial consortia synthesized with designer communication modules have been used for information processing [109],[110], bio-computation [111], and therapeutics [112]-[114], as well as material and chemical productions [115]-[117].
David Faulkner, managing director of NWN Media, said: "The concept of the independently funded news consortia offered a real way forward in boosting news provision on channel 3 (ITV) and multiplatform coverage across the whole of Wales.
Within three years other (actual) corporate mining consortia had formed and launched their own ships.
This metagenomic approach allows the real-time study of live consortia in various environments through identification of the members of these communities [ 23- 25] and/or determination of the relative abundances of particular physiological functions, reflected in the occurrence of specific enzymes [ 26- 28].
We used a case study approach to evaluate the Thai unit's and African consortia's monitoring models in their real life contexts.
Consortia have successfully been applied to real-world problems including remediation and energy, however there are still fundamental questions to be answered.
The creation of multinational, multidisciplinary consortia is an approach with great potential to identify and compare real-world practice and relevant outcomes in NICUs.
IBM's successful use of both an innovation community and consortia to support the strategy of its server and mainframe computer businesses is an excellent real example.
In fact, synthetic consortia have already started to show tremendous potential in both understanding biological questions and addressing real-world concerns.
In the real world, innovative firms are often remarkably quick to license new technology or to become members of technology-sharing consortia.
