We are working to restore the Unionpedia app on the Google Play Store
OutgoingIncoming
🌟We've simplified our design for better navigation!
Instagram Facebook X LinkedIn

Consortium

Index Consortium

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. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 88 relations: Airbus, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Amherst College, ARCO, Articles of partnership, BAE Systems, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Big Ten Academic Alliance, Big Ten Conference, Blend word, BP, Capacity (law), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Christmas club, Claremont Colleges, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont McKenna College, College of Wooster, Common law, Company, ConocoPhillips, Cooperation, Coopetition, CSS, Denison University, ExxonMobil, Five College Consortium, Five Colleges of Ohio, Food and Drug Administration, Food industry, France, Freedom of contract, Germany, Government, Hampshire College, Harvey Mudd College, HTML, Illinois Institute of Technology, In-car entertainment, Individual, Institute for Food Safety and Health, Joint and several liability, Joint venture, Keck Graduate Institute, Kentucky, Kenyon College, Latin, Law of the United Kingdom, Legal person, Liberal arts college, ... Expand index (38 more) »

  2. Consortia

Airbus

Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation.

See Consortium and Airbus

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company

The Alyeska consortium refers to the major oil companies that own and operate the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) through the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.

See Consortium and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

See Consortium and Amherst College

ARCO

ARCO is a brand of gasoline stations owned by Marathon Petroleum.

See Consortium and ARCO

Articles of partnership

Articles of partnership is a voluntary contract between/among two or more persons to place their capital, labor, and skills into a business, with the understanding that there will be a sharing of the profits and losses between/among partners.

See Consortium and Articles of partnership

BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, defence and information security company, based in London, England.

See Consortium and BAE Systems

Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch

The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, abbreviated BGB, is the civil code of Germany, codifying most generally-applicably private law.

See Consortium and Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch

Big Ten Academic Alliance

The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference.

See Consortium and Big Ten Academic Alliance

Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.

See Consortium and Big Ten Conference

Blend word

In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.

See Consortium and Blend word

BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

See Consortium and BP

Capacity (law)

Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or altogether the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sense also called legal personality).

See Consortium and Capacity (law)

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is the branch of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that regulates food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics, as opposed to drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products, which also fall under the purview of the FDA.

See Consortium and Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Christmas club

A Christmas club is a special-purpose savings account, first offered by various banks and credit unions in the United States beginning in the early 20th century, including the Great Depression.

See Consortium and Christmas club

Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.

See Consortium and Claremont Colleges

Claremont Graduate University

The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California.

See Consortium and Claremont Graduate University

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.

See Consortium and Claremont McKenna College

College of Wooster

The College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio.

See Consortium and College of Wooster

Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

See Consortium and Common law

Company

A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective.

See Consortium and Company

ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production.

See Consortium and ConocoPhillips

Cooperation

Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English and, with a varied usage along time, coöperation) takes place when a group of organisms works or acts together for a collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit.

See Consortium and Cooperation

Coopetition

Coopetition or co-opetition (sometimes spelled "coopertition" or "co-opertition") is a neologism coined to describe cooperative competition.

See Consortium and Coopetition

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for specifying the presentation and styling of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML).

See Consortium and CSS

Denison University

Denison University is a private liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio.

See Consortium and Denison University

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

See Consortium and ExxonMobil

Five College Consortium

The Five College Consortium (often referred to as simply the Five Colleges) comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, totaling approximately 38,000 students.

See Consortium and Five College Consortium

Five Colleges of Ohio

The Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc. is an American academic and administrative consortium of five private liberal arts colleges in the state of Ohio.

See Consortium and Five Colleges of Ohio

Food and Drug Administration

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

See Consortium and Food and Drug Administration

Food industry

The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.

See Consortium and Food industry

France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

See Consortium and France

Freedom of contract

Freedom of contract is the process in which individuals and groups form contracts without government restrictions.

See Consortium and Freedom of contract

Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

See Consortium and Germany

Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

See Consortium and Government

Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

See Consortium and Hampshire College

Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College (HMC) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering.

See Consortium and Harvey Mudd College

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

See Consortium and HTML

Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

See Consortium and Illinois Institute of Technology

In-car entertainment

In-car entertainment (ICE), or in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), is a collection of hardware and software in automobiles that provides audio or video entertainment.

See Consortium and In-car entertainment

Individual

An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity.

See Consortium and Individual

Institute for Food Safety and Health

The Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) is a research consortium consisting of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FDA CFSAN), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the food industry.

See Consortium and Institute for Food Safety and Health

Joint and several liability

Where two or more persons are liable in respect of the same liability, in most common law legal systems they may either be.

See Consortium and Joint and several liability

Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

See Consortium and Joint venture

Keck Graduate Institute

Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) is a private graduate school in Claremont, California.

See Consortium and Keck Graduate Institute

Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

See Consortium and Kentucky

Kenyon College

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States.

See Consortium and Kenyon College

Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

See Consortium and Latin

Law of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has three distinctly different legal systems, each of which derives from a particular geographical area for a variety of historical reasons: English law, Scots law, Northern Ireland law, and, since 2007, calls for a fourth type, that of purely Welsh law as a result of Welsh devolution, with further calls for a Welsh justice system.

See Consortium and Law of the United Kingdom

In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on.

See Consortium and Legal person

Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts of humanities and science.

See Consortium and Liberal arts college

Liquidation

Liquidations is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end.

See Consortium and Liquidation

Market (economics)

In economics, a market is a composition of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations or infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange.

See Consortium and Market (economics)

Mobil

Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil.

See Consortium and Mobil

Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

See Consortium and Mount Holyoke College

Napoleonic Code

The Napoleonic Code, officially the Civil Code of the French (simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception.

See Consortium and Napoleonic Code

Natural person

In jurisprudence, a natural person (also physical person in some Commonwealth countries, or natural entity) is a person (in legal meaning, i.e., one who has its own legal personality) that is an individual human being, distinguished from the broader category of a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.

See Consortium and Natural person

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

See Consortium and North Carolina

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States.

See Consortium and Oberlin College

Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio.

See Consortium and Ohio Wesleyan University

Organization

An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

See Consortium and Organization

Partnership

A partnership is an agreement where parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

See Consortium and Partnership

Pitzer College

Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.

See Consortium and Pitzer College

Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

See Consortium and Poland

Pomona College

Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.

See Consortium and Pomona College

Property

Property is a system of rights that gives people legal control of valuable things, and also refers to the valuable things themselves.

See Consortium and Property

Richmond, Kentucky

Richmond is a home class city in Kentucky and the county seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States.

See Consortium and Richmond, Kentucky

Scripps College

Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California.

See Consortium and Scripps College

Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

See Consortium and Smith College

Standards organization

A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization (SDO), or standards setting organization (SSO) is an organization whose primary function is developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise contributing to the usefulness of technical standards to those who employ them.

See Consortium and Standards organization

Syndicate

A syndicate is a self-organizing group of individuals, companies, corporations or entities formed to transact some specific business, to pursue or promote a shared interest. Consortium and syndicate are types of organization.

See Consortium and Syndicate

Syndicated loan

A syndicated loan is one that is provided by a group of lenders and is structured, arranged, and administered by one or several commercial banks or investment banks known as lead arrangers.

See Consortium and Syndicated loan

Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

See Consortium and Tennessee

Trade association

A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. Consortium and trade association are types of organization.

See Consortium and Trade association

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal.

See Consortium and Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky.

See Consortium and University of Kentucky

University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts.

See Consortium and University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of North Carolina

The University of North Carolina is the public university system for the state of North Carolina.

See Consortium and University of North Carolina

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee.

See Consortium and University of Tennessee

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

See Consortium and University of Virginia

Unocal Corporation

Union Oil Company of California, and its holding company Unocal Corporation, together known as Unocal was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century.

See Consortium and Unocal Corporation

Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

See Consortium and Virginia

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

See Consortium and Virginia Tech

Voluntary association

A voluntary group or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, common-interest association, association, or society) is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement, usually as volunteers, to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose. Consortium and voluntary association are types of organization.

See Consortium and Voluntary association

West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

See Consortium and West Virginia

West Virginia University

West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia.

See Consortium and West Virginia University

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

See Consortium and World Wide Web

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

See Consortium and World Wide Web Consortium

XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

See Consortium and XML

See also

Consortia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium

Also known as Affiliated institution, College consortium, Consortia, Consortiums, Industry consortium, Technology consortium.

, Liquidation, Market (economics), Mobil, Mount Holyoke College, Napoleonic Code, Natural person, North Carolina, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Organization, Partnership, Pitzer College, Poland, Pomona College, Property, Richmond, Kentucky, Scripps College, Smith College, Standards organization, Syndicate, Syndicated loan, Tennessee, Trade association, Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, University of Kentucky, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of North Carolina, University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Unocal Corporation, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Voluntary association, West Virginia, West Virginia University, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, XML.