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consortium
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A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. Consortia are generally nonprofit with a goal to help its members improve their competitiveness in the specific field.
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Examples
- Educational
- Commercial
- Aerospace
- Airbus example
- Coopetition
- Government, academia and industry
- Consortium for installment-based purchases
- Legal nature of the consortium agreement in selected countries
- France
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Italy
- Poland
- See also
- References
A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. Consortia are generally nonprofit with a goal to help its members improve their competitiveness in the specific field.
is a Latin word meaning "partnership", "association", or "society", and derives from ("shared in property"), itself from ("together") and ("fate").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “consortium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.