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* In ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' the most prenominent is March Industries. Originally started as a front company of [[GovernmentConspiracy MAJESTIC-12]] for advanced research, but after their collapse many ex-MAJESTIC personnel went to work at March (Including four former members of the MJ-12's Steering Committee). The reformed Delta Green can't shut down March since it's a major part of the Military-Industrial complex and are the only ones with know-how to research alien technologies and the paranormal. So the Program made an alliance (Or better saying, an [[KeepingTheEnemyClose uneasy truce]] to have March make research for them, while March executives abuse that position to profit and maybe take their position back in the future.
** The real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation RAND Corporation]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin Lockheed Martin]] appear as possible options of employers for player characters in the sourcebook *The Complex*.

* In ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' the most prenominent is March Industries. Originally started as a front company of [[GovernmentConspiracy MAJESTIC-12]] for advanced research, but after their collapse many ex-MAJESTIC personnel went to work at March (Including four former members of the Steering Committee). The reformed Delta Green can't shut down March since it's a major part of the Military-Industrial complex and made an alliance to have March make research for them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' have [=GenTek=], a genetics company that seems to be a front for the shadowy military agency Blackwatch. They claim to be researching ways to cure diseases, disfigurement, and ''death'', but in practice they're more like a mob of {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s and {{Mad Scientist}}s interested mainly in terrorizing the citizens of New York. In Prototype 2 you can find [=GenTek=] loudspeakers broadcasting messages telling citizens to "ignore the rumors" and trying to hit them up for money.

* Also in Franchise/TheDCU, Project Cadmus was into [[LegoGenetics genetic engineering]]; its {{abandoned laborator|y}}ies are in some caverns near Metropolis.

* in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Stark Industries often seems to fill this role, getting the credit for any real fancy tech that needs explaining, although it’s primarily an armaments manufacturer that’s diversified.

** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' has a few groups in the Technocracy: [[{{Cyborg}} Iteration X]] and the [[EvilutionaryBiologist Progenitors]].
** Subverted in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' where Pentex and its subsidiaries are all just a front for an EldritchAbomination, lying about their curses coming from research [[DoingInTheScientist when it's really magic]].

* in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Stark Industries often seems to fill this tole, getting the credit for any real fancy tech that needs explaining, although it’s primarily an armaments manufacturer that’s diversified.

** Project Cadmus was into [[LegoGenetics genetic engineering]]; its {{abandoned laborator|y}}ies are in some caverns near Metropolis.

* Stark Industries in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse seems to be responsible for just about all technology more advanced than what is actually available in the present day.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' have [=GenTek=], a genetics company that seems to be a front for the shadowy military agency Blackwatch. They claim to be researching ways to cure diseases, disfigurement, and ''death'', but in practice they're more like a mob of {{Sociopathic Soldier}}s and {{Mad Scientist}}s interested mainly in terrorizing the citizens of New York. In Prototype 2 you can find GenTek loudspeakers broadcasting messages telling citizens to "ignore the rumors" and trying to hit them up for money.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' have [=GenTech=], a genetics lab that seems to be directly controlled by Blackwatch, as all of their research, with projects like Blacklight and [[KillThePoor New Templar]] are things that only Blackwatch would support. You've got to wonder, where do they find the thousands of mad scientists it takes to run this place, seeing as it apparently is staffed purely by sociopaths and psychopaths.

* Yoglabs from "LetsPlay/Yogscast" is mod testing disguised as this.

* Black Mesa Research Facility from ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'' competed with Aperture Science for government grants with much more success.

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* Yoglabs from "WebOriginal/Yogscast" is mod testing disguised as this.

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* In the ''Literature/HeecheeSaga'', the Gateway Corporation makes all its money by researching applications of alien technology and other discoveries brought back by the volunteers who fly in the mysterious and often deadly alien ships found on Gateway asteroid.
* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'', The Durona Group was set up by Miles' brother Mark (using some of the millions he got at Jackson's Whole) to research life-extension techniques that will help put an end to the morally repugnant Jacksonian clone-and-brain-swap business.
* Galactic Cybersystems Corporation in ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' had a planet dedicated to R&D.

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* ''PandoraHearts'' has a GaslampFantasy variation of this: the organization Pandora was made for the express purpose of studying [[EldritchLocation the Abyss]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent the Chains]], [[RealityWarper the Will of the Abyss]], and their impact on the real world. The true object of their research is kept secret from the general public, and the main character only learns the truth after getting thrown into the Abyss himself and being forced to join the organization.

* [[http://research.ibm.com/ IBM]]'s R&D/revenue ratio is more like 7%, but they've had five Nobel laureates and as 2017 have patented more inventions in the US than any other company for [[LongRunners twenty-four years in a row]]. Suing IBM for patent infringement is generally regarded as a bad idea, because they generally call up their ArmyOfLawyers, have them take a look at your stuff, and say to your lawyer something like "Yeah, about that one patent of yours we're supposedly infringing . . . do you want to talk about the ''[[SpamAttack fifty]]'' [[SpamAttack patents of ours]] you're ''[[OhCrap definitely]]'' [[OhCrap infringing]]?"

* One that often surprises people: ''Microsoft'', amazingly enough and despite their reputation. They have an absolutely insane R&D budget that accounts for something like 12% of their revenue. It's also considered one of the unfortunate jokes of the IT industry that despite having one of the biggest and best research divisions in the world, the corporate division steadfastly refuses to actually produce any of their best ideas.

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has Versalife, which even has secret underground labs.
** ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' has a level where you sneak into Tai Yong Medical.

* ''VideoGame/VectorThrust'' has Sigsawa Heavy Industries, who specialise completely in research and development of new heavy industry and force-application technology to sell to nations and manufacturers.

* Antigen in ''Film/{{Underworld}}: Awakening'' focuses on medical research.

* Galactic Cybersystems Corporation in ''TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' had a planet dedicated to R&D.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' had a dedicated research staff who study the paranormal, primarily to figure out how to [[ArtifactCollectionAgency track down, capture]] and [[TailorMadePrison safely contain]] the things they've already encountered, secondarily to try to figure out how the paranormal in general works, and thirdly to figure out how to use the paranormal to create resources the Foundation can use (which is part of the reason the Foundation is an OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding).

* Bartok Industries starts up where Seth Brundle left off in ''[[Film/TheFly The Fly II]].''