Academic Research Licences must be owned, operated, and maintained by a college, university, or university-owned facility, and must be used exclusively for the purposes of research by professors, students, or internal research staff.
University-owned facilities may include research laboratories, cooperative/joint institute, medical schools, and teaching hospitals. In some cases, academic consortiums and non-profits may also qualify.
Academic Research Licences may not be owned or used by private government research laboratories, institutes, companies, or consortiums.