Technopoles Science Cities: Innovation

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Technopoles Science Cities Innovation
Learning Strategies

• Swayan Chaudhuri
• Centre for Urban Regional Development Studies
  (CURDS) and Business School
• University of Newcastle
• swayan.chaudhuri_at_ncl.ac.uk

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Agenda

• Science Cities What? Where? Why?
• Generic Innovation systems (NIS, RIS)
• Innovation in Science Cities
• Learning Strategies
• Methodologies Processes
• Discussion

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The big question

• Does collaboration between university-industry
• create value and
• advantage for the REGION as a
• whole?

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Structural Process

• Innovation improves Productivity Growth
• External Assistance facilitates collaboration
• Collaboration makes external assistance easier
• The Regional Environment facilitates
  collaboration
• Public Policy facilitates Regional Environment

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• International Review of Technopoles and Science
  Cities around the world Sophia-Antipolis
  (France), Tsukuba-Kansai (Japan), Daedeok Valley
  (South Korea)
• Current Evaluation of North-East (Newcastle
  City-Region) on its Innovation Performance (Both
  Firm Level Regional Level)
• Learning Lessons from Daedeok
• Forced relocation but good catching up
• Very Strong Collaborative work that has
  functioned between research institutions and
  industry
• Universities have formed alliances with some of
  the other best universities and research
  institutions around the world.

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Competitive Advantage Issue!

• Creating competitive advantage in regions through
• collaboration Great Idea! But How to measure
  it?

Performance analysis (using DEA) of firms within
spatial agglomeration in contrast with others not
in an agglomeration (Does Science based
agglomeration have any affect at all towards
growth?) Patent Citations Co-authorships
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The Innovation Mechanism Science City

• The Entrepreneurial University
• Internal RD
• Technology Transfer
• Project management
• Functional expertise
• Objective
• Foster internal innovation
• Diffusion of existing innovation through open
  mechanisms
• Provide access to Technologies
• Provide access with Human Capital

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The current model
Collaborations
Universities
Research Labs Public funded
Standards IPR, etc.
Public Policy
Open Innovation
Access to Human Capital
Access to technologies
Firms
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Thank you for your kind attention! Questions/
Comments? swayan.chaudhuri_at_ncl.ac.uk