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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§3707 National Science Foundation Cooperative Research Centers

Title 15 › CHAPTER 63 — TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION › § 3707

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Science Foundation must help create Cooperative Research Centers. These centers must be linked to a university, another nonprofit, or a group of such organizations. Their purpose is to help speed up technological innovation by doing the kinds of activities described in section 3705. NSF can give one-time planning grants to universities or nonprofits to develop the plan called for in section 3705(c)(3). Grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements follow the rules in the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 and other applicable laws.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §3707

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(a)Establishment and provisions
The National Science Foundation shall provide assistance for the establishment of Cooperative Research Centers. Such Centers shall be affiliated with a university, or other nonprofit institution, or a group thereof. The objective of the Centers is to enhance technological innovation as provided in section 3705(a) of this title through the conduct of activities as provided in section 3705(b) of this title.
(b)Planning grants
The National Science Foundation is authorized to make available nonrenewable planning grants to universities or nonprofit institutions for the purpose of developing the plan, as described under section 3705(c)(3) of this title.
(c)Terms and conditions
Grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements entered into by the National Science Foundation in execution of the powers and duties of the National Science Foundation under this chapter shall be governed by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 [42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.] and other pertinent Acts.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Science Foundation Act of 1950, referred to in subsec. (c), is act May 10, 1950, ch. 171, 64 Stat. 149, which is classified generally to chapter 16 (§ 1861 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1861 of Title 42 and Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 9 of Pub. L. 96–480 was renumbered section 10 and is classified to section 3708 of this title.

Amendments

2000—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 106–404 made technical

Amendments

to references in original act which appear in text as references to section 3705 of this title. 1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–502 substituted “Cooperative Research Centers” for “Centers for Industrial Technology” and struck out last sentence which read as follows: “The provisions of section 3705(e) and 3705(f) of this title shall apply to Centers established under this section.”

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 3707

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110