Research Park at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the context of Research park

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Research Park at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a research park located in the southwest part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus in Champaign, Illinois. Research Park is a technology hub for startup companies and corporate research and development operations. Within Research Park there are more than 120 companies employing more than 2,100 people including students and full-time technology professionals.

Multinational and publicly traded corporations in the Research Park include: ADM, Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie, Ameren, AGCO, bp, Bayer, Brunswick, Capital One, Cargill, Caterpillar, CME Group, Corteva, Deere & Company, Kohler, Littelfuse, Motorola Solutions, Nutrien Ag Solutions, NVIDIA, Riverbed, Rivian, State Farm, Synchrony, and Yahoo (Verizon Media Group).

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Research Park at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the context of University of Illinois

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U. of I., Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the founding campus and flagship institution of the University of Illinois System. With over 59,000 students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States.

The university contains 16 schools and colleges and offers more than 150 undergraduate and over 100 graduate programs of study. The university holds 651 buildings on 6,370 acres (2,578 ha) and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also operates a research park home to innovation centers for over 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations.

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