Walt Mossberg

It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.

American Journalist

Mitch Kapor

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

American Businessman

Paul Davies

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

British Writer

Agnes Gund

I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

American Public Servant

Karl Iagnemma

In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to contribute to the consortia.

American Writer

Karyn Kusama

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.

American Director

Vitalik Buterin

Although the Ethereum blockchain is a public blockchain, it is great to see private and consortium blockchains using the Ethereum code base actively under development.

Russian Businessman

Andrea Mitchell

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

Jim Lovell

I would suspect strongly that over a period of time, if we put our mind to going to Mars, it will be a consortium of several countries.

American Astronaut

Sam Allardyce

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

English Businessman

Consortium often involves temporary collaboration for specific projects.

Joint Ventures

Members in a consortium work towards a mutual objective, benefitting all parties involved.

Shared Goals

Using 'consortium' suggests a formal alliance; it's not used for casual partnerships.

Professional Context

Educational consortia usually share resources like libraries or research facilities between members.

Resource Sharing

In a university consortium, students may cross-register to attend classes at partner institutions.

Cross-Registration

Consortiums foster connections between scholars, aiding collaboration and academic networking.

Academic Networking

 Generous postdocs tutored us as we went along. Within a few years, we found the gene. We patented it so that it would be freely available. We created a diagnostic test. We put together a research consortium. We held research meetings and opened a center of excellence.

Science didn't...

 crabs are seen in the remotely obtained video crawling over each other near deep sea hydrothermal vents the mostly colorless marine animals live in utter darkness at depths of more than 78 hundred feet the find was made by a consortium of researchers who published

Ghostly Yeti Crab Swarms...

 to bring the most cutting-edge science to vaccine development. We're taking a deeper dive as to how current vaccines protect. We've formed an international consortium to study how hepatitis B vaccine protects newborns from hepatitis B infection. And to do this,

The new science of...

 Deciphering these directions would be a monumental task but could offer unprecedented insight about the human body. In 1990, a consortium of 20 international research centers embarked on the world's largest biological collaboration to accomplish this mission.

The race to sequence the...

 single cable connecting Africa internationally to the rest of the world this is fat-free it is the only cable worth talking about on the continent it only goes down the west coast of the continent it was built by a shareholder consortium and

Technology makes way for...

 to the people in charge of our computer systems and find out what led them to introduce this new policy, and they said that the university had joined a consortium of universities, and one of the requirements of membership

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 challenges with the best possible bridge the consortium holds a design competition one of the most spectacular proposals requires building the largest arch bridge in the world I think you don't really get an idea of the

The Impossible Bridge PIPE...

 and send it to a new body, a whole body called an exoskeleton, a whole robotic suit that will become the new body of these patients. And you can see an image produced by this consortium.

Miguel Nicolelis: A...

 me. So this project is about making a consortium of micro organisms that would lead to increasing the yield of agarwood. Hi. Supriya, how's it going? Yeah. Hi. I'm fine. How are you?

Is Your Perfume Made...

 For the last decade, I've been leading a group -- a consortium -- international group, to build what will be, when it's finished, the largest optical telescope in existence.

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