Research Triangle Institute
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| Motto | Improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice |
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| Founded | 1958 |
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Headquarters | Research Triangle Park, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°54′9.95″N 78°51′58.26″W / 35.9027639°N 78.8661833°WCoordinates: 35°54′9.95″N 78°51′58.26″W / 35.9027639°N 78.8661833°W |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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E. Wayne Holden (President/Chief Executive Officer) |
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Revenue
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US$831.5 million (2015) |
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Employees
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4,150 (2015) |
| Website | www |
RTI International (formerly Research Triangle Institute) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina that provides research and technical services. It was founded in 1958 with $500,000 in funding by local businesses and the three North Carolina universities in the Research Triangle region. RTI started with departments for research in isotopes, operational sciences and statistics. It restructured into four departments in 1971 and later created the Office for International Projects, now called the International Development Group.
RTI later split into eleven departments, including Health Research, Drug Discovery & Development, Education & Training Research, Survey Research, among others. The US Agency for International Development has come to account for 35 percent of RTI's research revenue. RTI research has covered HIV/AIDS, healthcare, education curriculum and the environment, among others. Forbes magazine ranked RTI International sixth of 250 in its America’s Best Employers list for mid-size companies for 2016.
In 1954, Romeo Guest, a building contractor, met with the North Carolina state treasurer, Brandon Hodges, and the president of Wachovia, Robert Hanes, to discuss building a research park in North Carolina to attract new industries to the region. They obtained support for the concept of Research Triangle Park from state governor Luther Hodges and the three universities that form the research triangle: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina State University. The Research Triangle Institute (now RTI International) was formed as the research park's first tenant in 1958 by the park's founders. The following January they announced that $1.425 million had been raised by the Research Triangle Foundation to fund the park and that $500,000 of it had been set aside for RTI.
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