The Miami Valley Research Park is a university related research park owned by the non-profit Miami Valley Research Foundation, founded in 1980.
Foundation Mission
- To foster and promote research, technological, scientific and educational activities
- To create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities
- To improve the economic welfare of the metropolitan Dayton area
Foundation Members
- Central State University
- Sinclair Community College
- The University of Dayton
- Wright State University
- Representatives of regional business and industry
Associate Members
- Air Force Materiel Command
- Aeronautical Systems Center
- Air Force Institute of Technology
Park Facts
- 1,250 Acres
- Located east of metropolitan Dayton, Ohio in suburban communities of Kettering and Beavercreek
- 300 Acres currently developed
- Capital investment in Park development of $275 million
- First building completed in spring of 1985
- Seventeen buildings completed totaling 2 million square feet
- 43 Organizations located at the Park
- 4,500 people employed at the Park
- Park is financially self-sustaining with no public support