Secondary school projects (K-12)
Undergraduate capstone projects
Undergraduate research projects – unpaid, for degree
Graduate student projects – non-funded, no deliverables
Curriculum development (for internal use only)
Undergraduate research projects – paid or generating IP
Graduate student projects – funded with deliverables
University research labs (labs operated within a specific department of a university)
Joint/cooperative institutes (licenses must be owned and operated by a university)
Academic consortiums (for academic use only)
Academic non-profits (no commercial interactions)
Curriculum development – open source sharing
Research labs - private or government ownership
National Laboratories (FFRDCs)
Tech transfer programs/Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
Spinoff/Startup companies
Hardware/product development - for resale
Curriculum development – for resale