"Research Triangle" refers to the geographic area defined by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Within the Triangle is the Research Triangle Park, a well defined area of 6,900 acres within which there are over...

The role of research parks in the transfer of academicresearch findings is considered. A model is offered that describes the growthand productivity of research parks using data from the new National ScienceFoundation database on university research parks. The data covered the years 1997 and...