The Phortos Group is a collaboration of innovative companies and leading scientists which is coordinated by Phortos Consultants (www.phortosconsultants.com). The Phortos Group provides valorisation services to academic institutions and private parties, in many cases through public private partnerships. The Phortos Group provides all necessary services to develop scientific discoveries to sustainable propositions and ventures. All its activities are underpinned by the Phortos Group ‘CUBIC’ methodology. A particular area of interest and expertise is the application of innovative semantic technologies such as Nanopublications.

Consulting for the GO FAIR movement supporting FAIR data implementations for government, industry and academia and leading the International FAIR Service Provider Consortium. Description:Data driven science and innovation will dominate research and implementation in the health sector and other domains for the decades to come. GO FAIR addresses a number of key challenges in the phase transition towards true data driven science and innovation. The GO FAIR movement has high level governmental support from the EC, statements of the G20 and G7 and several ministries in The Netherlands. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable data (FAIR) are key for data -driven innovation and Applied Intelligence. The final aim is to optimally use data and associated applications for better data analytics and data management. The Netherlands is at the forefront of these developments and acts as a ‘guiding member state’ in Europe for FAIR data in (health) action in preparation for the European Open Science Cloud. As a final aim the FAIR approach contributes solutions and expertise to fundamentally change the personal health and disease paradigm in The Netherlands, with citizens empowered to fully participate in the process.

Euretos (www.euretos.com) provides Knowledge as a Service to the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Euretos is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform used by pre-clinical researchers for in-silico discovery & validation of targets and biomarkers. World leading pharma, biotech and academic institutions use it to accelerate their research. The Euretos AI Platform gives its users unprecedented access to various public databases as a single source. On top of this we can relate your privately generated data to the publicly available data, creating your unique knowledge universe.One of the world's leading scientists says:“Euretos has developed one of the most remarkable products I have seen in a long time. There is no way that I can do justice to what this remarkable software can do. In brief, it is nothing less than an in silico way to save all drug researchers an infinite amount of blood, sweat and tears. In the drug discovery arena, this thing is a gold mine.”

The Concept Web Alliance (CWA) is a global alliance that aims to tackle the increasing problems associated with information overload and the inaccessibility of data. NBIC is one of the initiators of CWA, which was launched on May 8, 2009 and has already been joined by 90 participants from academia and the private sector worldwide.

Knewco is an innovative in-text advertising platform that enables knowledge discovery and sharpens advertising relevancy. Knewco’s semantic technology identifies “concepts” in addition to “keywords”, and algorithmically associates concepts with other relevant concepts.