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Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the largest research park
Research park

A Research park is a research facility which is often linked with a major research university. Throughout North America, there are more than 170 research parks....
 in the United States. It is located near Durham
Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina and also extends into Wake County, North Carolina county....
, Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the Capital of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats of Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh is known as the ?City of Oaks? for its many oaks....
, and Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , the oldest state-supported university in the U.S....
, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
. A small part of the Park stretches into Wake County, but the majority of the land is in Durham County
Durham County, North Carolina

Not to be confused with County Durham in the UKDurham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its county seat is Durham, North Carolina....
.

It is one of the most prominent high-tech research and development
Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications [sic]" ...
 centers in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and is often compared to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of Integrated circuit innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech s...
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Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the largest research park
Research park

A Research park is a research facility which is often linked with a major research university. Throughout North America, there are more than 170 research parks....
 in the United States. It is located near Durham
Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina and also extends into Wake County, North Carolina county....
, Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the Capital of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats of Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh is known as the ?City of Oaks? for its many oaks....
, and Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , the oldest state-supported university in the U.S....
, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
. A small part of the Park stretches into Wake County, but the majority of the land is in Durham County
Durham County, North Carolina

Not to be confused with County Durham in the UKDurham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its county seat is Durham, North Carolina....
.

It is one of the most prominent high-tech research and development
Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications [sic]" ...
 centers in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and is often compared to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of Integrated circuit innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech s...
. It was created in 1959 by state and local governments, nearby universities, and local business interests. Karl Robbins bought the land where the park is now built. The Research Triangle along with the Cummings Research Park
Cummings Research Park

Cummings Research Park, located primarily in the city of Huntsville, Alabama is the second largest research park in the United States, and the fourth largest in the world....
 located in Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Alabama and Limestone County, Alabama Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama, and the county seat of Madison County....
, and the in Richmond
Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....
, three of the largest research parks in the country, have made the "New South
New South

New South or New South Creed is a phrase that has been used intermittently since the American Civil War to describe the Southern United States, in whole or in part....
" home to three global centers of scientific leadership.

The park is 7,000 acres (28 km²) situated in a pine
Pine

Pines are Pinophyta trees in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species....
 forest
Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
 with approximately 630 acres (2.5 km²) for development. As of 2007, there are over 130 R&D
Research and development

The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications [sic]" ...
 facilities existing in RTP with more than 39,000 employees working for a total of 157 organizations. The park is adjacent to Interstate 40
Interstate 40

Interstate 40 is a major west-east Interstate Highway in the United States. Its western terminus is at Interstate 15 in California in Barstow, California; its eastern terminus is at a concurrency of U.S....
 and the Durham Freeway. It is managed by the Research Triangle Foundation, a private non-profit organization.

The park is home to one of the largest IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
 operations in the world; the company has around 11,000 employees in RTP. The park hosts one of GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
's largest R&D centres with approximately 5,000 employees.

Companies and institutions in or near the Research Triangle Park


  • ABB
    ABB

    ABB is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:*ABB Grain Limited, an Australian agribusiness*ABB Group, formerly Asea Brown Boveri, a multinational corporation based in Switzerland...
  • AudioCodes
    AudioCodes

    Company History Shabtai Adlersberg co-founded AudioCodes in 1993. The company was established based on its low-bit-rate speech compression technology....
  • BASF
    BASF

    BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest chemical company in the world. BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik ....
  • Bayer
    Bayer

    Bayer Aktiengesellschaft is a Germany chemical industry and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863. Today it is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....
  • BE&K
    BE&K

    BE&K, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a global engineering and construction company. BE&K is named after its founders Peter Bolvig, William Edmonds, and Ted Kennedy and was founded in 1972 after the three men left the Birmingham based Rust International to start their own company....
  • Becton Dickinson
    Becton Dickinson

    Becton, Dickinson and Company , is a medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD does business in nearly 50 countries with its 27,000 employees....
  • Bekaert
    Bekaert

    NV Bekaert SA is an Industry company, which is one of the BEL20 companies in the index for the Euronext Brussels stock exchange. The company specializes in advanced metallurgy transformation and advanced materials and coatings....
  • Biogen Idec
    Biogen Idec

    Biogen Idec, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurology, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen and San Diego, California-based Idec Pharmaceuticals ....
  • Böwe Bell & Howell
    Böwe Bell & Howell

    B?we Bell & Howell is a United States-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery.According to its charter, Bell & Howell Company was incorporated February 17, 1907....
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an agency of the United States United States Department of Health and Human Services based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States adjacent to the campus of Emory University and northeast of downtown Atlanta....
  • ChannelAdvisor
  • Cisco Systems
    Cisco Systems

    Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
  • Coleman Insights
  • Credit Suisse
    Credit Suisse

    The Credit Suisse Group is a financial services company, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Credit Suisse was founded by Alfred Escher in 1856 under the name Schweizerische Kreditanstalt ....
  • Cree Inc.
    Cree Inc.

    Cree Inc. is a Durham, North Carolina based, United States corporation which manufactures semiconductor materials and devices. After the recent market turmoil, CREE now commands one of the highest trading multiples on the Nasdaq stock exchange....
  • Diosynth
    Diosynth

    Diosynth is a company that develops manufacturing processes for active ingredients for pharmaceutical company all over the world.The company started in 1923 with the extraction of insulin from bovine pancreas, which is still one of their main products....
  • DuPont
    DuPont

    E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company is an United States chemical industry that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuth?re Ir?n?e du Pont....
  • DynCorp
  • Eisai Co.
    Eisai Co.

    is one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies, ranking among the top 25. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it has some 10,000 employees, among them about 1,500 in research....
  • EMC
    EMC Corporation

    EMC Corporation is a United States Fortune 500 and S&P 500 provider of information infrastructure systems, software and services. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA....
  • Environmental Protection Agency
    United States Environmental Protection Agency

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an List of United States federal agencies of the federal government of the United States charged to Regulation of chemicals and protect human health by safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land....
  • Extreme Networks
    Extreme Networks

    Extreme Networks founded in 1996, is a publicly listed company that designs, builds, and installs Ethernet network solutions for enterprise and Carrier Class networks....
  • Freescale Semiconductor
    Freescale Semiconductor

    Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004....
  • Fidelity Investments
    Fidelity Investments

    Fidelity Investments is an investment company. It consists of two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research LLC , founded in 1946 and serving North America, and Fidelity International Limited , spun off in 1969 and serving the rest of the world....
  • General Electric
    General Electric

    The General Electric Company, or GE is a multinational corporation United States technology and Service s conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York....
  • GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
  • Hatteras Networks
    Hatteras Networks

    HATTERAS NETWORKS, Inc is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and was started in 2000 to develop high-performance telecommunications access platforms....
  • International Business Machines (IBM)
    IBM

    International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
  • ICF International
    ICF International

    ICF International is a management, technology, and policy consulting firm.ICF is based in Fairfax, Virginia, with offices in business centers in the Americas, Asia, and Europe....
  • iContact
  • Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society
    Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

    The International Society of Automation formerly known as1 The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society is a non-profit technical society for engineers, technicians, businesspeople, educators and students, who work, study or are interested in industrial automation and pursuits related to it, such as instrumentation....
  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
    International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

    The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry is a non-governmental organization established in 1919 for the advancing of chemistry. Its members are national chemistry societies....
  • Intersil
    Intersil

    Intersil Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets ? Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial....
  • Intersouth Ventures
  • Kendle International
  • Lenovo
  • Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co.

    Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world....
  • Monsanto
    Monsanto

    The Monsanto Company is an American Multinational corporation agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup"....
  • Motricity
    Motricity

    Motricity was formed in 2001 by Ryan Wuerch to provide integrated mobile content solutions for Handheld devices. Originally formed as PowerByHand, the company changed its name to Motricity in October 2004 after its merger with Pinpoint Networks....
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

    The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is one of 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health ,which is a component of the Department of Health and Human Services ....
  • National Humanities Center
    National Humanities Center

    The National Humanities Center is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. It is the only major independent institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities in the United States....
  • National Semiconductor
    National Semiconductor

    National Semiconductor is a semiconductor manufacturer, specializing in analog devices and subsystems,headquartered in Santa Clara, California, California, United States....
  • NetApp
  • Nortel Networks
  • North Carolina Biotechnology Center
    North Carolina Biotechnology Center

    The North Carolina Biotechnology Center is a private, non-profit organization located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Founded in 1984 by the North Carolina General Assembly, it was the first state-sponsored biotechnology initiative in the nation, merging the interests of the academic private, and public sectors....
  • Nufarm
    Nufarm

    Nufarm , headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, is one of the world's leading agricultural chemical companies, with operations in all corners of the globe....
  • Ogilvy
    Ogilvy

    Ogilvy is a name of people and fictional characters, as well as a Scottish clan . It may also refer to:In other uses:*Ogilvy , department store in Montreal, Canada...
  • Pharmaceutical Product Development
  • Quintiles
    Quintiles

    Quintiles Transnational Corp. is a the world's largest pharmaceutical services company. Much of its business comes from its work as a contract research organization which serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries....
  • RadarFind Corporation
  • Red Hat
    Red Hat

    In computing, Red Hat, Inc. is a company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1995, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....
  • Research Triangle Institute
    Research Triangle Institute

    The Research Triangle Institute is a non-profit research organization based in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina. RTI is the oldest tenant of this major research park, and the sister organization to the Research Triangle Foundation....
  • ReverbNation.com
    ReverbNation.com

    ReverbNation.com is a web site, launched in 2006, that focuses on the independent music industry. It provides a central site for musicians, producers, and venues to collaborate and communicate....
  • S&R Communications Group
  • SAS Institute
    SAS Institute

    SAS Institute Inc. , headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States, has been a major producer of software since it was founded in 1976 by Anthony Barr, James Goodnight, John Sall and Jane Helwig....
  • Scenera Research
    Scenera Research

    Scenera Research is an independent research company. The company's research arm, Scenera Labs, is located in Cary, North Carolina, near Research Triangle Park....
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation
    Semiconductor Research Corporation

    Semiconductor Research Corporation was the chip industry's first research consortium. A non-profit founded in 1982 and based in North Carolina, United States, SRC networks with more than 100 universities globally....
  • Sigma Xi
    Sigma Xi

    Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit honor society which was founded in 1886 at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a handful of graduate students....
  • Sony Ericsson
    Sony Ericsson

    Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 3, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones....
  • Southern Capitol Ventures
  • Spirent Communications
    Spirent

    Spirent Communications plc is a United Kingdom telecommunications company based in Crawley, West Sussex. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
  • Sumitomo
  • Syngenta
    Syngenta

    Syngenta AG is a large global agribusiness which markets seeds and crop protection products . Syngenta is involved in biotechnology and genomic research....
  • Talecris Biotherapeutics
  • Tekelec
    Tekelec

    Tekelec, Inc. is a US company , founded 1979 in California, but now headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. Tekelec?s carrier-grade network solutions enable the delivery of calls and text messages for more than one billion mobile and fixed-line subscribers....
  • Triangle United Way
    Triangle United Way

    Triangle United Way is a federated giving campaign organization in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, United States. It was born out of the consolidation of the United Way of America of Durham County, North Carolina, Orange County, North Carolina and Wake County, North Carolina counties in North Carolina, in 1996....
  • Underwriters Laboratories
    Underwriters Laboratories

    Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is a U.S. privately owned and operated, independent, third party product safety testing and certification organization....
  • United States Forest Service
    United States Forest Service

    The USDA Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 United States National Forest and 20 United States National Grassland....
  • Verizon
  • Wyeth
    Wyeth

    Wyeth, formerly known as American Home Products , is one of the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. The company is based in Madison, New Jersey....


Universities

  • North Carolina Central University
    North Carolina Central University

    North Carolina Central University is a comprehensive university offering programs at the baccalaureate, master?s, professional and selected doctoral levels....
  • Duke University
    Duke University

    Duke University is a private university research university located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodism and Religious Society of Friends in the present-day town of Trinity, North Carolina in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892....
  • North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University

    North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public university, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States....
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....


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See also

  • The Triangle
    The Triangle (North Carolina)

    The Research Triangle, commonly referred to as "The Triangle", is a region in the Piedmont of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by the cities of Raleigh, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina....