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Corporate Research Center Facts

Mission:
  ....to develop a growing, prestigious research park for high-technology companies.  Concurrently, the CRC will, in collaboration with the university, advance the research, educational, and technology transfer missions of Virginia Tech (VT).
   
Size:
 
  • Currently have 17 completed buildings totaling 600,000 square feet on 120 acres of land.
  • Currently constructing two buildings - 35,000 square feet, tenant-owned building, and a 45,000 square feet, multi-tenant incubator building.
  • Total build-out is planned to be 28 buildings totaling 1 million square feet housing 3,000 employees in the next 10 years.
   
Population:
 
  • At present:

   

109 tenants

1,700 employees

150 students

   
 
  • The park attracts about 20 new tenant companies per year.
  • The private company failure rate is less than 3% per year.
   
   
Organization:
 
  • CRC is a for-profit wholly-owned, private subsidiary of the Virginia Tech Foundation, and is, therefore, not a state entity.
 
  • Investments:

    Federal:

$600,000 in 1985 for infrastructure.

$2,000,000 in 2002 for incubator.

    State: $0
    VT Foundation: $4,000,000
   
VT Research:
 
  • Over $2 million in annual industry-sponsored research at Virginia Tech comes from companies in the CRC.

  • VT performs over $214 million per year in research.

  • VT is ranked 4th in patents issued among non-medical schools and has $1.5 million in annual licensing income.

   
Medical School:
 
  • The Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine opened in the fall of 2003
  • 600 students in a 4-year program.
  • 60,000 square feet Phase I
  • Planned 60,000 square feet Phase II for research