High-Tech Parks and Development Zones in Metropolitan Shanghai: From the Industrial to the Information Age

Walcott, Susan M.; Xiao, Wenbin

doi:10.1080/10225706.2000.9684068

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“…Opened in 1992, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park occupies over three square kilometers on rapidly developing Pudong, a formerly agricultural area located on the eastern margins of Shanghai. A variety of incubators sponsored by several government entities intermix with numerous large multinational companies, from Revlon to Roche (Walcott and Xiao 2000). The number of foreign-invested companies tripled from twenty-three in 1999 to seventy a year later; by 2001, around one hundred companies occupied the district (Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech .…”

Section: Shanghai-pudongmentioning

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Chinese Industrial and Science Parks: Bridging the Gap

Walcott

2002

The Professional Geographer

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This article proposes the addition of a "bridge high technology" stage to Park's (1996) Asian development model, based upon field research and analysis of four "science and technology parks" in different regions of China: Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Xi'an. Initially established as learning districts to foster technology transfer from foreign to domestic enterprises, these specially configured spaces exhibit a variety of interactions indicating an increasing shift toward domestically generated technology for native companies. The mix and type of companies in parks at different locations within China reflect the locational comparative advantages of each place, whether as an outgrowth of local research or by government design.

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Section: Shanghai-pudongmentioning

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Chinese Industrial and Science Parks: Bridging the Gap

Walcott

2002

The Professional Geographer

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“…Fifteen other area science and technology parks followed, including three more at the national level (China Science and Technology Department, 2000;Ning, 2002). These policies transformed Shanghai from a polluted, aging manufacturing has been on the Huangpu to a sparkling new beacon of China's modernized future led by showcase Pudong-from farms to futuristic French-designed boulevards, the largest metropolitan area park, striking architecture, abundant (and expensive) apartments, and a Mecca for middle class and foreign educated workers (Walcott & Xiao, 2000).…”

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Metropolitan spatial dynamics: Shanghai

Walcott

Pannell

2006

Habitat International

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As China's largest and wealthiest city, Shanghai's dynamic growth since the 1990s indicates the spatial form of new metropolitan expansion patterns. This research deals with mechanisms shaping emerging patterns, including the rise of a land market, settlement of inner suburbs by urban core and ''floating'' populations, and peri-urban in-filling. Growth drivers flow from planning and targeting high technology manufacturing based on domestic research and development, foreign companies, and joint ventures as well as new sources of domestic capital based on property development schemes and cooperation between Party cadres and local entrepreneurs. Evidence comes from the 2000 Census, remotely sensed photography, and interviews with city planners. The match between new residential and occupational spaces and transportation infrastructure connections for a more mobile and spatially diffuse population is of concern for future policy. r

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“…Zhangjiang is absolutely vast, covering over 500 square kilometers in total. The purpose of these parks is quite simply to "attract high tech manufacturing firms for the purpose of jump-starting economic development" [49]. There is very little criticism of science parks in China.…”

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Science parks in China: a cautionary exploration

Macdonald

Deng²

2004

IJTIP

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Science parks have long been in fashion, originally in the US, then in Europe, and now in the rest of the world. They promise much in terms of growth and employment achieved through providing new, high technology companies with an ideal location. Clustered in pleasant surroundings alongside a university or research centre, entrepreneurs are able to transform their ideas into innovations. Yet, despite all the enthusiasm, there is little evidence that science parks work as their supporters say, and growing evidence that they do not. There may be benefits, but perhaps for those who can lay claim to a role in a particular model of innovation, rather than for the firms that occupy the science parks. This paper considers the creation of the Silicon Valley model, and then speculates on the implications for China of its uncritical acceptance in science parks.

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High-Tech Parks and Development Zones in Metropolitan Shanghai: From the Industrial to the Information Age

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

Chinese Industrial and Science Parks: Bridging the Gap

Chinese Industrial and Science Parks: Bridging the Gap

Metropolitan spatial dynamics: Shanghai

Science parks in China: a cautionary exploration

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