Research Triangle Park, North Carolina - Definition and Overview

Research Triangle Park, or RTP is a research park 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.

The park is 7,000 acres (28 km²) situated in a pine forest with approximately 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) for development. As of the early 2000s, 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.

Companies and institutions in or near the Research Triangle Park

• BASF
• Bayer
• Becton Dickinson
• Biogen Idec
• Böwe Bell & Howell
• Blue Phoenix Solutions
• 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
• Syngenta
• United States Forest Service
• Verizon

Universities

• Duke University
• North Carolina State University
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External links

• Research Triangle Park Web site (http://www.rtp.org)
• RTP-TV (http://www.rtp.org)
• Triangle TechJournal (http://www.triangletechjournal.com)
• The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (http://www.cednc.org)