Targeting economic development with science and technology parks and gateway cities: Schumpeterian possibilities of new developmental states in fostering local and global development

Abstract

<jats:p>ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how innovative environments as a local strategic policy with particular features of the new entrepreneurial developmental state associated to what we call a Schumpeterian-style of policy can transform regions of middle-income countries, like Brazil. In particular, we sought to answer the following research question: how the São José dos Campos Science and Technology Park (STP-SJC) has been used as a tool to promote regional development? To answer it, having a logical model of this policy in perspective, we focus on this environment’s main objectives and empirically we performed a case study applying process tracing methodology.</jats:p>

Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’

“…According to Scholvin et al (2019), gateway cities thus enable strategic coupling through 'five essential features: logistics and transport, industrial processing, corporate control, service provision and knowledge generation' (p. 1292). Other scholars have shown how governments employ zone-based developmental technologies to create local gateways to the global knowledge-based economy (Mello et al, 2020). Yet, while Scholvin et al (2019) recognize knowledge production as a crucial function of gateway cities, they mainly refer to corporate knowledge production.…”