2013 State of the Research Triangle Region
May 23, 2013 - News, Information & Videos
As the Research Triangle Regional Partnership (RTRP), our mission is pretty simple: Keep good things happening in the 13-county region. That means working closely with businesses, educational institutions and government organizations, continuing to foster the innovation and collaboration that have put us at the top of all those “Best places to live and work” lists.
Our companies. Our partners. Us. There’s a lot going on in the Research Triangle Region.
May 23, 2013 Research Triangle Region, N.C. – Research Triangle Region employment grew by 36,447 in 2012, more than double the 2011 figure, continuing a two-year recovery. All 13 counti…
May 23, 2013
New jobs. New investments. See which companies are locating and expanding in the Research Triangle Region.
Expanding: Leading developer of Electronic Health Record, practice management and other clinical, revenue cycle, connectivity and information solutions, will expand its operations center in Wake County
Investment: $2,800,000 Jobs: 350
Press Releases
May 2013
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People talk. Here’s what people are saying about the Research Triangle Region.
April 17, 2013
Your voice. Your ideas. Your thoughts connected with ours. Let's talk about the great region we call home.
Published on WRAL Tech Wire: Part I of a three-part series on the Research Triangle Region’s Cleantech Cluster. May 16, 2013 By Charles A. Hayes, President and CEO, Research Triangle …
May 16, 2013
Everybody’s got a story. Learn why companies chose to locate or expand in the Research Triangle Region.
“We appreciate the support we received from our local partners and from the State of North Carolina for our growth strategy.” Mary Bell, Vice President of Caterpillar’s Bui…
December 17, 2012
Region13 counties with characteristics that are all over the map.
Chatham County, where opportunity is knocking.
A great place to catch a world class show—or launch a world class idea.
These Acres are Green in more ways than one.
All the charm of the past. Including the vision that got us to the present.
Everything to prepare you for the medical field. Including seven golf courses.
The home of Ava Gardner continues producing beauty.
Moen. Pfizer. Coty. Catepillar. Frontier Spinning. Many of the world's most respected companies thrive in Lee County.
"The Home of American Golf" has opportunities way beyond the links.
The first public university and the first choice for major employers.
Where supporting your business is our business.
(Also known as Smartsville, USA)
16 square miles of lake and a reservoir of possibility.
Smarter all around.
Well-connected, both virtually and literally.
ClustersGood advice, but with 170 of the world’s top research organizations just a few minutes’ drive from one another, we’ve decided to specialize a little less specifically. Learn more about the areas in which the Triangle region particularly excels.
It starts with research and development in our public and private research laboratories. Their findings support advances in medical care and delivery - not just through new drugs and therapies, but also via improvements in medical devices, testing, and the information tec…
One of the largest agricultural research programs in the country. Four of the largest agribusiness companies in the world. All bolstered by a strong regional economy with a bumper crop of agricultural biotechnology jobs. These factors and more are what puts the Research T…
They carry names only a scientist could love: mass spectrometers, gas chromatographs, ion analyzers, fluorimeters. But analytical instruments such as these test substances that affect our lives every day - from drinking water to drugs, pesticides to clean fuels. Scienti…
We're home to nearly every brand name vaccine maker, from Talecris and GlaxoSmithKline to Pfizer, and from Merck to Novartis - the largest flu vaccine manufacturing plant in the country. And that's just the beginning. More makers continue flocking here, including Medicago…
Renewable energy represents a multi-billion business opportunity with unlimited growth potential. Our state, our nation and our world are all seeking to reduce their dependence on oil and develop cleaner and more sustainable energy alternatives. The Research Triangle Regi…
You might have known that North Carolina boasts a considerable military presence (fourth-largest in the nation, actually), with seven military installations and 14 U.S. Coast Guard facilities. In fact, Fort Bragg holds the honor of the largest U.S. Army installation in t…
Gaining a competitive advantage in the knowledge economy is simple. Your organization just has to effectively manage, analyze and transform data into information, then use that information system to drive focused innovation and visionary decision-making. Piece of cake, ri…
This is the gaming industry's East Coast hub - home to more than 40 companies and one of the largest concentrations of game development companies in the United States. Existing studios thrive in the Research Triangle Region, and more continue arriving to serve the milita…
Strange things happen at the molecular level. The Research Triangle Region's nanotechnology cluster exploits this phenomenon, manipulating very small materials - 1/100,000th the width of a human hair - on the atomic and molecular scale to create new materials and devices …
What is pervasive computing? Nothing less than on-demand access to information from anywhere at any time - changing the way information is gathered, stored and shared. Creating pervasive computing networks isn't easy, though. It involves integrating wireless technologies…
Welcome to the most important research and technology-intensive industry in the Research Triangle Region. Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical R&D are a mainstay here, and nearly every major brand name pharmaceutical company - from GlaxoSmithKline, to Merck, to Pfizer…
AssetsBragging isn’t in our nature, so we’ll just say that when someone’s singing our praises, these are the things we tend to hear most often.
Business Climate
Cross-pollination
Education
Infrastructure
International Focus
Quality of Place
Research Triangle Park (RTP)
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