This document provides an overview of companies and research centers located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It lists several major corporations that have opened innovation centers for areas like sustainable energy, manufacturing technology, cybersecurity, agriculture, and more. The document also welcomes a new company called Granular that is opening today in the Research Park to work on farm management software and analytics.

1. Welcome to the
Research Park
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. RP Aerial Tour
• Aerial tour of the Research Park with drone photography
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIfD_Cln2Sc&feature=youtu.be
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3. Yahoo! Champaign

4. Abbvie Innovation Center

5. Caterpillar Data Innovation Lab

6. Ameren Innovation Center

7. State Farm RDC 10 Years

8. Dow Agrosciences

9. Capital One Illinois Digital Campus Lab

10. Agrible

11. CORPORATE INNOVATION
CENTERS
• ADM Sustainable Bioenergy
Modeling Center
• Caterpillar Simulation Center
• Caterpillar Data Innovation Lab
• Citrix, Bytemobile operation
• John Deere Technology
Innovation Center
• Dow Chemical Innovation
Center
• Dow Agrosciences
• Raytheon, Cybersecurity
• State Farm Research and
Development Center
• Yahoo, Hadoop Center of
Excellence
• Capital One Illinois Digital
Campus Lab
• Abbott Laboratories
• Littelfuse
• Riverbed
• Ameren Innovation Center
• Anheuser-Busch InBev
• Foxconn Interconnect
• Abbvie Innovation Center
• Grainger
• Turn

12. Peer Environment

13. Welcome Granular!
• Opening today in the Research Park!
• Granular farm management software and analytics
platform to help improve efficiency, profit and yield
• San Francisco based company with investors including
Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Kholsa
Ventures, and Tao Capital Partners