خط مشي هاي توسعه پارك هاي علمي در مناطق داراي نوآوري كمتر از حد انتظار

Policies for Development of Science Parks in Less-Innovative Regions

Nowadays, establishment of science parks is a basic strategy for promotion of regional businesses and establishing innovative regions. Policy makers often utilize theories of innovative regions and count less on local points of strength and threats. Science parks arc PiH1 of national/regional innovation systems, so it seems rational to expect that the policies of park ʹs development should have consistency with the policy development of the hosted regions. The assumption in this paper is that regional innovation policies which arc suitable for less-innovative regions are good guides for science parks of Iran. In this paper, literature of innovation barriers and various policies suggested for less-innovative regions are studied, with the aim of extending them to science parks. Using innovation-related data, Iran provinces are clustered. Three groups of clusters arc identified: fragmented metropolitan regions (including 2 provinces), locked-in industrial regions (including 8 provinces) and peripheral regions (including 18 provinces). Finally, for each of them, some science park development policies are suggested.