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CONTENTS 1 The Knowledge Economy The Knowledge Economy, 1 For Innovation, Research Parks Just Work with its new features and necessities, has 2 Urban Research Parks Rebuild Cities From Within generated its own type of “industrial estate”. 2 Technology Transfer 3 Regional Report: Europe BY: LUIS SANz, DIRECTOR GENERAL, CEO, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE PARKS 4 What is the Future of Research Parks? The pre-industrial economy gave way to guilds, concen- for the skilful “knowledge workers”, help- 4 Regional Report: Latin America trated in the heart of the old cities where many street ing their companies to attract and retain talent. In short, STRPs are a formidable names remind us of these professions (Shoemaker Street, springboard to reach higher levels of Blacksmith Alley etc.). competitiveness within ever increasingly international and demanding markets

RESEARCh PARKS until now considered untouchable. Its • Knowledge and technology transfer: Publisher: Robert Kelley new model of industrial environments is STRPs stimulate and manage contacts [email protected] known by different names, although all between businesses and universities Designer: Carrie Reagh share many common denominators: they • Specialized services: intellectual prop- [email protected] are the science, technology, or research erty advice, access to international Printer: Dow Jones parks (STRPs). networks, use of labs and sophisticated LUIS SANz For more information about supplements Even though the quality of buildings scientific equipment, contact with in- Director General, CEO in the daily press, please contact: and infrastructures is much higher in vestors, venture and seed capital funds International Association of Science Parks Kayvan Salmanpour, 1 646 922 1400 [email protected]. these environments than in the traditional and many others ith the emergence of the in- industrial estates, the real estate element • Contamination-free and clean spaces This section was written by Mediaplanet and did not involve The Wall Street Journal dustrial economy, with its is not as important as the value received In addition to this, the presence of or Editorial Departments. huge factories and machines, by the business which comes from the business incubators makes STRPs an W this urban location had to be abandoned wide range of sophisticated services pro- environment where the dynamism of www.mediaplanet.com and moved to the outskirts of the cities to vided by the parks, such as: new entrepreneurs co-exists with the lessen the impact of their contaminating • Tenant quality: companies selected on experience of consolidated companies. Courtesy of the North Dakota State processes and high scale logistics. This was the basis of their technological and In its continuous evolution many parks University Research and Technology Park how the industrial estates came about. innovative capacity. Being in a park is also have cultural, residential and leisure The Knowledge Economy has broken an accreditation which is of increasing options which reinforce their attractive- many established concepts that were value worldwide ness not only towards businesses but also

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The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) is a professional association of university related research, sci- ence and technology parks. AURP’s mission is to foster innovation, commercialization and economic growth through university, industry and government partnerships. AURP’s membership includes planned and operating parks, many of which contain technology incubators. A variety of university, government, not-for-profit and private companies interested in the development and operation of high technology economic development projects also comprise AURP’s membership.

For Innovation, Research Parks Just Work

“If you put a lot of smart people in a given area, you get better commercialization. Biotech Cluster in Munich. “What you really designed to facilitate such serendipitous You get better economic development and more jobs,” says Brian Darmody, associate need is a creative environment, a kind of partnerships. playground which allows the scientists “They’re a broader group than just a vice president for economic development at the University of Maryland and current to work on their—in many cases—crazy landlord,” Mike Kaminski says of Cortex, president of the Association of University Research Parks. ideas and hypotheses.” He describes an a life sciences research park in St. Louis. “innovation culture” in Bavaria, where Kaminski is chief executive officer of more than 100 research groups from Stereotaxis, a publicly traded company t sounds obvious, but Darmody’s tion toward health care and high-tech, president of Delaware Technology Park, academia and industry are coming to- based at Cortex that makes magnetically assertion is an idea that’s still taking research parks have become economic agrees. “In these times, we’re puzzled gether to focus on the field of personal- controlled cardiac catheters and other Ihold. The first university research park hubs, in many ways replacing—and as to why we’re not getting more of a ized medicine and targeted therapies. medical devices. Stereotaxis was at- in the world was founded at Stanford improving on—the industrial park of old. federal look at that rather than bailing As for the civic benefits of research tracted to Cortex as a place to transform University in 1951, in part to connect GI Business incubator-type industries create out the old,” he says. “We’re bailing out parks, Darmody cites the example of technology developed at the University of Bill college graduates with well-paying 20 times more jobs than traditional infra- banks, we’re bailing out car companies, Dr. Rita Colwell, former director of the Virginia and the Livermore Laboratories in jobs. This model—a high-technology structure projects, and at good wages; and that’s not going to make us grow.” National Science Foundation and now a California into a commercial entity. private industry park in symbiosis with for example, the average salary at jobs While it’s true that knowledge can professor at the University of Maryland. At research parks, private industries and a research university—soon began to created by a research park in Philadelphia move across great distances with modern One of Colwell’s research interests is universities share equipment, employees thrive, and research parks appeared across is $89,000. communications infrastructure alone, in tracking the spread of cholera. Thanks to and ideas. Former students go to work the United States and the globe. “Research parks are part of the inno- practice there are countless obstacles to the draw of the University of Maryland for corporations, and former corporate “The very presence of a research park vation infrastructure, just like when the the kinds of collaboration that produce Research Park, the National Oceanic and At- employees become professors. Research implies inherently that a region or com- country was being founded,” Darmody true innovation. The gulfs between pure mospheric Administration (NOAA), whose Triangle Park hosts monthly luncheons for munity is working to develop top-of-the- says. “We built the Erie Canal and the academic research and private industry, bailiwick does not include infectious research directors featuring peer speak- food-chain, higher-end employment,” ob- transcontinental railroad, and we built and between different disciplines, often diseases, moved some of its offices in next ers; it also functions as an efficient orga- serves Rick Weddle, president and CEO of docks and piers and airports. In the inno- obstruct the kinds of coincidences and door. It turned out that NOAA software nizing principle for state infrastructure Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, vation economy, in the knowledge econ- accidental collaborations from which for modeling coastal water flows could investments, from North Carolina’s first the nation’s largest. “It’s a leading indica- omy, you need infrastructure like that.” essential new tools, medicines, software also be used to track cholera, a water- supercomputer in the 1980s to its biotech tor of economic growth, but it’s also a lag- Mike Bowman, chairman and and other advances are born. borne pathogen. Colwell discovered that center and business incubators today. As ging indicator of the level of cooperation But with the right approach these epidemiologists could use the software to Delaware’s Bowman observes, “A good re- that has existed in the region.” obstacles can be overcome, accord- predict cholera’s spread in weeks, rather search park is not like a moated castle; it’s With the economy’s ing to Horst Domdey, Managing than months, ultimately saving lives. more of a community asset.” increasing orienta- Director of the BioM Research parks are increasingly ©Clemson University 2008 University ©Clemson

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Urban Research Parks Rebuild Cities From Within At one time, South Bend, , had two famous faces. One was Studebaker, the legendary automaker. The other was the , which gave the city scholarly, religious and football prestige. Though there was interchange between them, these two institutions represented starkly different sectors of the economy.

tudebaker closed up shop in abutting most university campuses. president with Forest City, which is build- 1963, and other manufacturing Luecke worked with Notre Dame for ing the Hopkins park, notes: “In our parks, Scompanies have followed them several years to develop plans for a two- what you’ll find is that we usually get into the archives. Meanwhile, Notre Dame site research and technology park in engaged with institutions that are look- has become a powerful research center. South Bend. Innovation Park opened this ing to do more than just lab buildings. But the producing culture of South Bend fall across the street from the university, We have housing, we have retail, we have remained under utilized. and Ignition Park will soon open on the green open space; so most of the institu- Cities around the United States are old Studebaker manufacturing grounds tions that engage us to do these parks are looking to research parks to catalyze the as a place for companies that outgrow the looking to build a 24/7, fully sustainable process of bringing academic research incubator at Innovation Park. community.” to market, and therefore to catalyze their What South Bend can look forward to St. Louis’s Cortex research park, opened economies. Parks in South Bend, Philadel- as these parks grow is shown by the his- in 2005, is already revitalizing another phia, Baltimore and St. Louis exemplify the tory of America’s oldest urban research run-down neighborhood between Wash- advantages of research parks for urban park, the University City Science Center in ington University and St. Louis University. revitalization. Philadelphia. Since it was founded in 1963, “We were able to take around 18,000 “We have a tradition of learning how the Science Center has supported over square feet and mold it exactly as we to make things,” says South Bend Mayor 350 organizations. The vast majority of needed it,” says Shelton Caruthers, a pro- . “There’s a strong history those that remain in business today have fessor and researcher in advanced imag- here of entrepreneurism and a support remained in the region, accounting for ing and nanomedicine at Washington system in place, businesses that can well over 15,000 jobs directly, and almost University’s School of Medicine whose provide things that startup businesses three times that many indirectly. department relocated to Cortex. “We took need, and a culture supportive of In Baltimore, the Science + Technology five or six different labs separated by stairs entrepreneurship.” Park at Johns Hopkins University is rising and halls and elevators, and put them The perks of urban research parks are from the ashes of a neighborhood used as under one roof on one floor.” many: from the history and the business a backdrop for “The Wire” due to its blight. infrastructure Luecke describes to the The first of five planned buildings opened vital, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods in April 2008. Scott Levitan, a senior vice

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Sometimes great ideas stumble out the doorway of Center. The initiative’s goal is to bridge the ivory tower into the light of day, but too often they some gaps in Massachusetts’s otherwise IlTechParks.com get lost in a spiral staircase. Most research parks aim thriving “information pipeline” from the state’s many top-notch universities to its to guide such marketable, or “translational,” research equally prestigious biotech companies into the light of private investment, where it can thrive and hospitals. and work toward better health and quality of life for To achieve a similar goal, the State of Illinois has invested capital dollars in its everyone. This commercialization of research is known as research parks. “Over the past 10 years, “technology transfer.” Illinois’ eight technology parks have increasingly become linch pins in the

ne of the most important things that happen in a “Ouniversity—besides the education of the students—is the gener- ation of new knowledge and new discov- eries that ultimately don’t matter much if they don’t make way into the market- place,” says Joe Hornett, senior vice presi- dent and COO of the Purdue Research Foundation in West Lafayette, Indiana. The mere proximity of university Discover one website and eight outstanding researchers and private investors in a research park complex can be enough Illinois locations that offer the most advanced to connect translational research with technological resources for high-tech business investment. Research parks also actively cultivate technology transfer through in the U.S. Businesses just like yours. regular networking events and shared equipment and infrastructure. In some cases, especially during slow economic periods, private investors are reluctant to take the risk to enter the tech- ©Clemson University 2008 University ©Clemson nology transfer process in its early phases, Illinois Technology Parks says Susan Windham-Bannister, president do is we can afford to place some bets and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sci- on promising entrepreneurs that pri- state’s strategy to promote technology where high-tech happens. ences Center. In these circumstances it vate investors have been slow to fund,” transfer,” said David Baker, Executive Di- makes sense for the government to step Windham-Bannister says. The State of rector of the University Technology Park in and encourage translational research in Massachusetts recently launched its Life at IIT. “That has led to real cooperation in its early phases to prepare the ground for Sciences Initiative, a 10-year, $1 billion joint marketing of our assets, dialog on private investment. public investment in the life sciences best practices and the sharing of leads.” “What we as a quasi-public entity can with its “super-cluster” at the Life Sciences

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In europe Many approaches, One Goal

In March of 2000, leaders from across Surrey Research Park in England, “The Europe gathered in Lisbon to set eco- northern European model is that we nomic goals for the following decade. focus more on the pre-incubation and The broad aim of the Lisbon Strategy, incubation of companies.” as the output of this summit came to be This emphasis has paid dividends, Brazilian known, was to “make Europe, by 2010, according to the European Business the most competitive and the most dy- School’s Innovation for Development namic knowledge-based economy in Report 2009–2010, which named the world.” Sweden and Finland the two most As that benchmark date nears, there innovative economies in the world. is broad consensus that Europe has not Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK Research achieved all of its goals, but there is also and Norway also made the top ten. plenty of evidence that many initiatives Another advantage claimed by have proven valuable and successful. many European researchers and poli- “In Europe there are now many cymakers is that the smaller size of countries with a very strong innovation the countries allows for greater inter- system, including very open connec- nal connectivity. Christoph Ebell, the Parks tions between government, the acad- science and technology counselor at emy and industry,” says Sten Gunnar the Embassy of Switzerland in Washing- Johansson, CEO of the Mjardevi Science ton, suggests his own country as an ex- Park in Sweden. “This is what we call the ample. “Switzerland can be seen as one ‘triple helix’.” big research park or cluster with all the With a strategic direction determined necessary components present: world Exciting Environments to Locate Your at the EU level, individual countries class researchers and infrastructure, have taken it into their own hands to funding, capital, innovators, entrepre- Investment in R&D and Innovation guide and implement that strategy. In neurs, global players and an educated Belgium, according to Rudy Dekey- and highly skilled workforce.” ser, Managing Director of the Flemish Malcolm Parry of England sees Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnol- increased cooperation among the Brazil: A promising market with solid economic growth and ogy (VIB), “the government has imple- ‘triple helix’. “We’re moving away innovative environments for organizations, investors and industry. mented an overarching spectrum of from purely university parks towards instruments to facilitate the recruitment commercial science parks,” he says. of both capital and human capital, two Austrian scientist Josef Penninger, key components in the establishment Director of the Institute of Molecular of a competitive life sciences research Biotechnology in Vienna, points to a close cluster.” Research parks in the region relationship between his research- Contacts: of Flanders now comprise over 130 ers and the pharmaceutical company Apex-Brasil Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency’s companies and employ more than Boehringer-Ingelheim as a source of www.apexbrasil.com.br Phone: +55 61 3426 0202 20,000 people. heightened innovation. As a diverse economy, Europe “Most science, despite modern ways ANPROTEC Brazilian Association of Science Parks provides numerous models for sup- of communication, happens in the porting research and commercial- cafeteria,” Penninger says. “I am a firm and Business Incubators www.anprotec.org.br ization. “It does vary across Europe,” believer in the powers of direct human [email protected] says Malcolm Parry, director of the communications.” Phone: +55 61 3202-1555

Research parks in the region of Flanders now comprise over 130 companies…

FlANDerS > 130 biotech companies and 20,000 people employed in life sciences > dedicated biotech companies such as Ablynx, TiGenix, Actogenix, Apitope, Innogenetics, reMYND, Trinean, Pharmaneuroboost, Oncomethylome,… > research centers of top companies like Bayer CropScience, CropDesign (BASF), Genzyme, J&J and Genencor > the presence of VIB, a life science research center of excellence, consolidating the expertise and commitment of 4 universities and scientists from 54 nations > a wide array of government support Flanders, for the recruitment of capital and human resources > one of the world’s most favorable the region where biotech tax systems: only 6.8% on sales of patented drugs never stopped booming… > excellent facilities available for life sciences companies, totaling 300,000 sq ft dedicated infrastructure in the Bio-Accelerator Flanders is a leading life sciences region, situated in Belgium, in the heart and several Bio-Incubators of Europe. Still going strong, it offers excellent opportunities for biotech www.biotechinflanders.be companies. In the past months, both private and public companies have been able to successfully raise money. North Sea Amsterdam Argen-X ($18.84m), Pronota ($9.8m) and Okapi Sciences ($12.75m) completed FlAnders london Brussels private investment rounds. Listed companies such as Thrombogenics ($61.79m), Cologne Galapagos ($27.5m) and Devgen ($21m) raised capital on the stock market. And only a fortnight ago, Movetis completed its $130m IPO, one of the world’s largest since the beginning of the financial crisis. Paris

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What Is The Future Of Research Parks? Entrepreneurial leaders and researchers might not be expected to talk about “research longer very attractive to the younger gen- Cloudy as the crystal ball is, some things clouds,” “flow,” “serendipity management,” “knowledge ecosystems,” “co-presence” and eration. Young people feel they are too are clear: in coming years, research parks rigid or too businesslike. They like this will have to be quick on their feet to adapt “trust” in their day-to-day business lives. But ask them to predict the future of research more relaxed environment.” to scientific and technological fields that parks and their Ouija boards start speaking in horoscopic tongues. Kakko has worked to develop methods are ever mutating and ever more decen- for “serendipity management” and “open tralized. And they will have to keep their ast June, the Research Triangle middle school and a golf course adjacent than 100,000 in the North Karelia re- innovation” to discover ways to best fa- focus on the research park’s raison d’être: Park and the Institute for the Fu- to university academic “neighborhoods,” gion in eastern Finland. In 2006, Net- cilitate the ad hoc collaborations he de- collaboration. lture released a report titled “Future private corporations, nonprofit institu- work Oasis opened its doors as a nearly scribes. “Otherwise it will happen in cof- “Collaboration is not often pretty,” Knowledge Ecosystems.” This insightful tions and government agencies. In coming 13,000-square-foot facility that busi- fee shops and bars,” he says. “It would be says Rick Weddle, president of Research report lays out three possible futures for decades, this greater interweaving of re- nesses, university professors, researchers, nice to have it related to the science park Triangle Park and one of the authors of research parks over the next twenty years. search parks with their communities might and students can rent space in – by the environment.” the report. “It’s rarely easy to understand. In one scenario, called “Science and indeed become the standard paradigm. minute. Finally, according to the Institute for You can’t pass a rule that says, Tomor- Technology Parks 3.0,” research parks In a second scenario, the decentral- Ilkka Kakko, who helped plan the Oasis, the Future report, there is the third pos- row we’re going to collaborate. It has to will adapt and become more complete ization of research and innovation will gives a European take on the future of re- sibility that high energy costs and other become embedded in the culture.” hybrids of academia and business, with atomize the work of research parks into search parks: “They should be, more and economic changes could render research environmentally sustainable campuses. “research clouds” floating around univer- more, places where people should meet parks, and a substantial amount of their But they may sometimes be bypassed as sities, and traditional parks will struggle to more randomly and ad hoc. Research work, infeasible. Most collaboration would innovation becomes more decentralized keep up. “Pop-up” labs could appear for parks should work on trying to increase happen online, and aging research parks online and internationally. a season to develop a given technology, the diversity among their clientele. So could become technological “ho- James zuiches, vice chancellor for then fade. Universities will be weighed far, it looks like science parks are no tels” as necessary. extension, engagement and economic down with history and tradition. development at North Carolina State One prototype is at the University in Raleigh, sees a blueprint for Joensuu Science Park in Research Park 3.0 in NC State’s Centennial Joensuu, a city of less Campus. “We really see ourselves as the research park of the future,” he says. The Centennial Campus is a new-model uni- versity research park, a sort of expansion colony of the Research Triangle Park next door. But unlike the core of the Research Triangle, it has the “real feel of a commu- nity,” zuiches says, with condominiums, a Courtesy of the University at Buffalo

Technology Parks in Latin america: Leveraging Innovation and Development

Latin America has undergone tremen- incubators associated with universities. ican Network of Associations of Parks and on investment, job creation, income and Tecnlogico of Monterrey. “Our R&D ca- dous growth in technology parks during These incubators contribute directly to Incubators (RELAPI) stand out in this con- economic development. pabilities are still emerging, so our parks the first decade of the 21st century. There the economic and technological devel- text, in addition to the International Asso- One such effort, in Monterrey, Mexico, need to be customized to the reality of are nearly 100 Parks in operation or being opment of regions, and they also inspired ciation of Science Parks (IASP), which has is already beginning to reap dividends. Latin America.” installed, involving almost 1,000 technol- the region’s first tech park projects. a special Latin American division. Home to the Science and Technology Jose Eduardo Azevedo, the IASP Latin ogy-based companies. This phenomenon Secondly, the region has a wealth of The third common element is related to Parks Network of Tecnologico of Monter- American Division President and CEO of has some common factors: the role of networks or associations that promote national and local public policies to pro- rey and the well-publicized PIIT Monter- Sapiens Park in Brazil, is optimistic that business incubators, the importance of cooperation among the technological mote innovative entrepreneurial activ- rey Research and Innovation Technology these parks throughout the region can networks and associations and the need parks. These networks run on a national ity. With rare exceptions, Latin American Park, the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon is succeed. “It is a fact that Latin America still for consistent public policies. or regional level, promoting the exchange countries still invest very little in incuba- aiming to move from an industrial econ- has long way to advance in the fields of in- These technology parks are mainly the of knowledge, generation of business and tors and parks, in comparison with the omy to an innovation economy. novation and sustainable development,” result of an initiative to stimulate and pro- interaction between parks. National asso- USA, Europe and Asia. On the other hand, “The plan of the Mexican government he says. “It is another fact that Technology mote an entrepreneurial and innovative ciations such as ANPROTEC in Brazil, and the few existing efforts have produced is to have at least 30 parks in the next 5 Parks are contributing decisively to help culture through the creation of business regional networks such as the Latin Amer- promising results both in terms of return years,” says Jose Manuel Aguirre of the overcome this great challenge.”

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MJäRdEvI SCIEnCE PaRK ERICSSOn RESEaRCh WaKE COUnTy ECOnOMIC dEvElOPMEnT Teknikringen 10, SE-583 30 Linköping, Sweden TRIanglE PaRK CaMPUS 800 S. Salisbury St. PO Box 2978 Raleigh, NC 27602-7099 + 46 13 20 57 57 • www.mjardevi.com 12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 919 664 7048 • www.raleigh-wake.org 919 549 8181 • www.rtp.org A soft landing for big or small companies. Mjärdevi Science Park offers unique NC State’s Centennial Campus is an extraordinary success story—a univer- opportunities for both start-ups and growing companies, especially in sity research park and campus that provides its corporate, governmental and The Ericsson Research Triangle Park Campus is comprised of two Class A imaging, telecom and automotive safety competences. non-profit partners unusually close proximity to a highly educated workforce buildings totaling 420,000 square feet. The buildings are surrounded by cor- in a collaborative, amenity-rich environment. porate campuses unique to the rest of the Raleigh/Durham market. The two buildings are recognized for their unique architectural appeal, and extraordi- nary technology infrastructure.