Research Triangle Park

Research Triangle Park (RTP) is a research park located near Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. It is one of the most prominent high-tech research and development centers in the United States and has been compared to Silicon Valley. It was created in 1959 by nearby universities and enterprises. Karl Robbins bought the land where the park is now built and the area was

The park is 7,000 acres (28 km²) situated in a pine forest with approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) for development. Currently more than 100 R&D; facilities exist at RTP with some 38,500 employees. The park is next to Interstate 40 and the Durham Freeway.

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1 Companies and institutions in or near the Research Triangle Park
2 Universities
3 External link

Companies and institutions in or near the Research Triangle Park

BASF
Bayer
Becton Dickinson
Biogen Idec
Cisco Systems
DuPont
DynCorp
Eli Lilly
Environmental Protection Agency
Ericsson
General Electric
GlaxoSmithKline
International Business Machines
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Humanities Center
Nortel Networks
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Red Hat
Research Triangle Institute
Sigma Xi
United States Forest Service
Verizon