ELIXIR has published a report presenting the different ways in which ELIXIR Nodes support the industry. It features a series of success stories highlighting industry-academia collaboration across ELIXIR.
The success stories are grouped into four categories:
- Engagement and collaboration: Strategic partnerships and bespoke collaboration
- Service provision: Services with high industry relevance
- Outreach, dissemination and brokering
- Seeking advice: Membership programmes and advisory bodies
Each category represents the different ways ELIXIR Nodes, and the services they run, interact with and are used by companies. The report shows that while some companies look for bespoke collaborations with ELIXIR Nodes to help them to find an optimal solution to their research activities, others simply want to learn more about the existing bioinformatics services and provide feedback on how they can better meet the needs of industry.