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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