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Supplementary Appendix S1. (Continued)
Question
Number
16
17
Did you have repeat users/customers to your biobank in the last
few years?
Did you have specific customers for the samples in your biobank
before you began collection?
Marketing / Advertising
18
19
20
21
22
yes
no
yes
no
partial
Does your biobank have a website?
Are you actively marketing the samples and data in your biobank?
Do you regularly communicate with your user / customer base
(e.g. newsletter, email, etc.)?
Do you have a strategy how to approach new users / customers
(ideally written in your business plan)?
Is your biobank active in social media for marketing (e.g.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.)?
Cost recovery
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Are you employing cost recovery at your biobank?
If yes what is your aim in terms of percentage cost recovery?
What level of cost recovery are you currently operating at?
Does the model include per sample costs?
Do you also have service costs?
If you cost recover is this made clear to participants?
Are the costs for your recovery model openly available?
If so please select all costs that are available
yes name (voluntary):
no
yes, internal network only
yes broadly
no
yes, internal network only
yes broadly
no
yes, internal network only
yes broadly
no
yes
no
yes
no * please go to Q 31
. %
no target
...%
unknown
yes
no
n.a.
yes
no
n.a.
yes
no
yes
no
n.a.
per sample
per data
per service
others
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