Rob Adams, the program's director, said the program aimed to be a «central clearinghouse for helping entrepreneurs transform ideas and technologies developed on campus into start - ups.» (inc.com)
In turn, users of Internet platforms are simply leveraging this tech to obtain the same service at a lower cost, and with more convenient updates and delivery than entertainment outlets, which were central clearinghouses of such information, could ever have achieved. (coindesk.com)
The charge goes back to NSF's founding in 1950 as a research agency that would also be a «central clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data on scientific and engineering resources.» (sciencemag.org)