Clusters
Everyone has a strong suit. We just happen to have twelve.
For a highly prized, utterly crucial competitive advantage, the key to this region’s continued success is pretty easy to figure out: Innovation. Our companies and people can do it better than just about anybody. And we know we can rely on them to keep innovating until the Latest and Greatest is just a jumping-off point. New products. New services. New companies. It all springs from that simple characteristic.
Recognizing that, we do everything in our power to make innovation as simple as possible to achieve here, with particular focus on a handful of specific life-science and technology clusters.
Why these? That, too, is simple: Because these are the areas in which the Research Triangle Region is a world leader – or is about to be.
If your company works in one or more of these key areas of innovation, contact the Research Triangle Regional Partnership at (919) 840-7372 or rtrp@researchtriangle.org to learn more about how we may be able to help.
Advanced Medical Care
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 ...
Agriculture Biotechnology
One of the largest agricultural research programs in the country. Three 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 ...
Analytical Instrumentation
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.
Scientists working ...
Biological Agents and Infectious Diseases
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 ...
Cleantech
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 Region's ...
Defense Technologies
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, Ft. Bragg holds the honor of largest U.S. Army ...
Informatics
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, right?
Perhaps ...
Interactive Gaming and E-learning
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 ...
Nanoscale Technologies
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 ...
Pervasive Computing
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 and optical ...
Pharmaceuticals
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 - operates a major ...
Sustainability
Over the next 20 years, the Research Triangle Region is projected to add 1.2 million people and 700,000 jobs. That's a lot of growth, and the Research Triangle Regional Partnership is here to make sure it's ...