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Nonprofit institutes are no longer eligible to apply as single applicants.
Proposers to the ATP are asked to identify potential markets for products that might one day incorporate the new technology to be developed in the project. They are also asked to discuss plans and pathways for commercializing and diffusing downstream products or processes based on the technology, assuming that their proposed research objectives are achieved and commercialization becomes technically feasible. But the ATP's funding contribution to the project is restricted to research activities and may not be used for product development. The 38 completed projects under study here have commercialized products or processes of both kinds. The Torrent Systems project was funded in ATP's Component-Based Software Focused Program Competition in 1994.