Science parks and regional innovation performance in fiscal austerity era: Less is more?

Gkypali, Areti; Kokkinos, Vasileios; Bouras, Christos; Tsekouras, Kostas

doi:10.1007/s11187-016-9717-x

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“…Gebauer et al (2005) also demonstrate that the multiple small innovation centres in more rural/economically peripheral areas of Western Germany often lack critical mass because of the localities in which they are located. Lecluyse et al (2019) identified a need for more research into the relationship between economic geography and science park when analysing the contribution of the science park to the economy, Gkypali et al (2016) suggesting that the science park needs to orientate itself within the RIS in which it finds itself.…”

Section: The Interrelationships Between Ris University and Science Parkmentioning

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“…For Jonsson (2002), the role of the university was specifically important in developing and supporting communication in RIS networks, whilst for Yoon et al (2015) the building of formal and informal relationships in the RIS by universities was of particular relevance. Given these different foci Gkypali et al (2016) identify the need to place the science park in its specific RIS context. The limited number of papers identified, however, both generally, and within the university category, as well as the disparate focus of these papers, again highlights the lack of studies in this specific area.…”

Section: The Ris-university-science Park Relationship and Its Focus Omentioning

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Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus

2021

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Recent work on Region Innovation Systems (RIS) has emphasised the importance of universities. Until recently, however, related insights into the dynamics of this relationship in respect of the specific role of the science park have been limited. This paper presents a systematic review identifying the key roles of each actor in relation to innovation. We link the dynamic roles performed by the university between science parks and the RIS. Our results enable us to identify how the key activities performed by the university change during its interrelations within the RIS and with the science park. Our analysis of the literature distinguishes between three sets of relationships through which the university plays differing roles: RIS-university, RIS-university-science park, and university-science park. Respectively, the University’s relationships between these different RIS actors focuses on: resource sharing, brokerage, and commercialisation-exploitation. Secondly, we find that within each of these relationship types the university can perform three types of roles: on knowledge co-creation, acting as conduit, and inter-organisational relationship building. Distinguishing between these differing relationships and roles enables us to identify a total of nine dynamic roles performed by the University, which include: provision of information, channels of communication, infrastructure, regional networking, building research collaboration, acting as knowledge intermediaries, economic development, technological change and commercialisation processes, and start up creation and commercialisation. The review identifies several gaps in the literature in need of further research, and suggests that university relationships with RIS, interlinked with those between the university and science park itself, are important factors affecting science park innovation performance.

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Section: The Interrelationships Between Ris University and Science Parkmentioning

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Section: The Ris-university-science Park Relationship and Its Focus Omentioning

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Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus

2021

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“…All errors and shortcomings are of course our own. Benneworth & Ratinho, 2014Biswas, 2004Gkypali, Kokkinos, Bouras, & Tsekouras, 2016H.-Y. Kim & Jung, 2010 Mukkala, 2010bYan & Chien, 2013…”

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The role of regional contextual factors for science and technology parks: a conceptual framework

Poonjan

Tanner

2019

European Planning Studies

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Literature on science and technology parks (STPs) lack a systematic understanding of how regional contextual factors affect the performance of STPs. Most studies focus on park-internal factors and neglect the regional context and connections when evaluating STPs' performance. This paper provides new insight on the role of regional factors for STPs by combining and discussing existing studies on STP performance with literature on regional innovation systems. We conduct an exploratory, systematic literature review of 64 papers that refer to park-external factors in their studies of STP performance. We identify five regional factors (university and research institutes, industrial structure, institutional settings, financial support and urbanisation) and assess how these factors have been shown to play a role for STP performance in previous studies. Based on this review, the paper develops a comprehensive framework of how regional contextual factors influence the performance of STPs,which can be used in designing and/or improving STP-performance while taking regional characteristics and needs into consideration. We believe a dynamic and comprehensive understanding of these regional connections can help improve designs of STPs, and hereby their performance.

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“…In an empirical study, Mas-verdu et al investigated 47 firms to examine the sustainable support to local enterprises by incubators and the result showed that the incubator-combined export activity positively affected business survival and increased the innovation efficiency [37]. Besides, with the framework of input-output, a knowledge production process that was used to evaluate a regional incubator's effect on regional development, the research results indicated that the incubator promoted the amount and the efficiency of Greek government expenditure on R-D [38]. In the specific environment of China, along with the economic reform and the promotion from local government, some university-based incubators established in the 1990s have turned into important innovation sources [39].…”

Section: University Participation and Regional Innovationmentioning

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Does the Multiple-Participant Innovation Improve Regional Innovation Efficiency? A Study of China’s Regional Innovation Systems

Jiang

2019

Sustainability

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The triple helix (university-industry-government) is a dynamic cooperation model in the area of regional innovation. With the application of this model, the authors aim to address the mechanism of how multiple participants affect innovation efficiency against the research background of China Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs-QCA) is applied to conduct a multiple-case analysis. With the evaluation of 31 provinces in China, which have various innovation performances and degrees of regional cooperation, the authors find strong evidence to support the positive effects of multiple participants on regional radical innovation. Moreover, this article also finds two typical configurations of factors that contribute to high innovation efficiency. Based on the results, the authors propose policy implications to improve China’s regional innovation in different areas. Finally, this paper concludes with the discussion of future research orientations, which could focus on the differences in the triple helix among different industries in China.

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Science parks and regional innovation performance in fiscal austerity era: Less is more?

Cited by 26 publications

References 48 publications

Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus

Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus

The role of regional contextual factors for science and technology parks: a conceptual framework

Does the Multiple-Participant Innovation Improve Regional Innovation Efficiency? A Study of China’s Regional Innovation Systems

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