In the second installment of our interview with Research Triangle Park President and CEO Bob Geolas, Geolas shares some eye-opening statistics about the park: 7,000 acres, 190 companies, and 60% of employers in the Park have 20 or fewer employees.

Geolas also outlines some of the challenges the Park is confronting in its plans for the future. “It will always be in a state of becoming,” he says.

He also describes the Park’s efforts to reach out to students at schools beyond its three founding institutions – including NC Central, UNC Asheville, UNC Wilmington and Western Carolina – and connect them with the jobs of the future.