Editing MIT Media Lab (section)

===Funding model===
The lab's primary funding comes from [[Sponsor (commercial)|corporate sponsorship]].  Rather than accepting funding on a per-project or per-group basis, the lab asks sponsors to fund general themes; sponsors can then connect with media lab research. Specific projects and researchers are also funded more traditionally through US government institutions including the [[National Institutes of Health|NIH]], [[National Science Foundation|NSF]], and [[DARPA]]. Also, consortia with other schools or other departments at MIT are often able to have money that does not enter into the common pool.

MIT Media Lab has an approximately $75 million annual operating budget.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.media.mit.edu/about/funding-and-support/|title=Funding and Support|website=MIT Media Lab|access-date=2019-08-21}}</ref>