Structural cooperation between Dutch University Hospitals to work with large data files to conduct fundamental research on health conditions.
See http://digikrant.fd.nl/20130302/public/pages/01024/articles/FD-20130302-01024002.html (Dutch)
See also the PSI http://www.string-of-pearls.org/ (English too)
The core collaboration concerns the exchange of data and the division of focus on certain health conditions between the Academic reserach centers.
This is a very nice example of collaboration between reserach centers to increase opportunities to make a break through in reserach for better therapies, farmaceutics etc.
Specific characteristics as to the way of doing business of reserach in health: its principles of competition and collaboration are both preserved!
We will monitor how it continues!