Industry is a major user of Europe’s key bioinformatics resources. Industrial users range from large multinational companies to micro-SMEs, covering fields such as pharma, biotech, food, agriculture and aquaculture.

Objectives

The objectives of ELIXIR’s Industry Strategy are:

• Facilitating collaborations between researchers in academia and industry, around mutually-beneficial cross-sectoral challenges
• Increasing the use of ELIXIR’s infrastructure services and resources by industry to allow for open innovation
• Demonstrating the impact of ELIXIR resources for open science, innovation in the life sciences and society at large
• Ensuring ELIXIR Nodes are supported in engaging effectively with the private sector

Our activities are guided by input from the Industry Advisory Committee.

Publications

• ELIXIR Industry brochure
• Supporting innovation in bioinformatics : How ELIXIR connects public bioinformatics infrastructure with industry 
• Public data resources as a business model for SMEs
• ELIXIR poster on industry engagement
• ELIXIR poster on business models in open bio-data ecosystems
• ELIXIR Industry strategy
• ELIXIR Industry strategy until March 2020
• Bousfield D, McEntyre J, Velankar S et al. Patterns of database citation in articles and patents indicate long-term scientific and industry value of biological data resources [version 1; referees: 3 approved]. F1000Research 2016, 5(ELIXIR):160 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.7911.1)