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Research Triangle Park (RTP) is the largest research park in the world. It is located near Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. A small part of the Park stretches into Wake County, but the majority of the land is in Durham County.

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It is one of the most prominent high-tech research and development centers in the United States and is often compared to Silicon Valley. 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 located in Huntsville, Alabama, and the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park in Richmond, three of the largest research parks in the country, have made the "New South" home to three global centers of scientific leadership.

The park is 7,000 acres (28 km²) situated in a pine forest with approximately 630 acres (2.5 km²) for development. As of 2007, there are over 130 R&D facilities existing in RTP with more than 39,000 employees working for a total of 157 organizations. The park is adjacent to Interstate 40 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 operations in the world; the company has around 11,000 employees in RTP. The park hosts one of GlaxoSmithKline's largest R&D centres with approximately 5,000 employees.

Companies and institutions in or near the Research Triangle Park

BASF
Bayer
BE&K
Becton Dickinson
Bekaert
Biogen Idec
Böwe Bell & Howell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Cisco Systems
Credit Suisse
Cree Inc.
Diosynth
DuPont
DynCorp
Eisai Co.
EMC
Environmental Protection Agency
Ericsson
Extreme Networks
Freescale Semiconductor
Fidelity Investments
General Electric
GlaxoSmithKline
International Business Machines (IBM)
Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
Intersil
Kendle International
Lenovo
Merck & Co.
Monsanto
Motricity
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Humanities Center
National Semiconductor
Network Appliance
Nortel Networks
Nufarm
Pharmaceutical Product Development
Quintiles
Red Hat
Research Triangle Institute
SAS Institute
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Sigma Xi
Sony Ericsson
Spirent Communications
Sumitomo
Syngenta
Tekelec
Underwriters Laboratories
United States Forest Service
Verizon
Wyeth

Universities

Campbell University
North Carolina Central University
Duke University
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

References

Link, A.N. A Generosity of Spirit: The Early History of the Research Triangle Park. Research Triangle Park: The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, 1995.
Link, A.N. From Seed to Harvest: The Growth of the Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park: The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, 2002.

v • d • e Research Triangle Metropolitan Region (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill)
Primary Cities	Raleigh • Durham
Other Large Cities	Cary • Chapel Hill • Apex • Carrboro • Wake Forest • Clayton • Oxford • Smifthfield • Henderson • Garner • Sanford • Morrisville • Holly Springs
Counties	Chatham • Durham • Franklin • Granville • Harnett • Johnston • Lee • Moore • Orange • Person • Vance • Wake
Major Universities	Duke • UNC-Chapel Hill • NC State • NC Central • Shaw University • Meredith College
Miscellaneous	Research Triangle Park • Triangle J Council of Governments

	v • d • e State of North Carolina Raleigh (capital)
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Coordinates: 35°54′29″N, 78°51′46″W

Category: National Institutes of Health

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