- •Executive Summary
- •Box K1.1. Why is innovation important?
- •Box K1.2. Incremental and radical innovation
- •Figure 1.1. Driving forces of innovation
- •Table 1.1. Innovation style at different stages of the firm
- •Table 1.2. Closed innovation versus open innovation principles
- •Table 1.3. The benefits of collaboration
- •Figure 1.2. Structure of the national innovation system
- •Box K1.3. Public-private partnerships for innovation
- •Table 1.4. Options for improving the functioning of an innovation system
- •Box K1.4. The public sector role as coordinator
- •Box K1.5. Innovation Agencies and Innovation Councils
- •Executive Summary
- •A. The importance of framework conditions
- •Box K2.1. Entrepreneurship as a driver of innovation
- •B. Local and regional dimensions
- •Box K2.2. Are local factors still relevant?
- •Box K2.3. Codified and tacit knowledge
- •C. The role of the business environment
- •Box C2.3. Good practices in company formation
- •Table 2.3. Basic principles in the organization and delivery of business services
- •Box K2.4. What is R&D and why it matters?
- •Table 2.4. Principles of designing tax incentives for R&D in firms
- •Figure 2.2. Eligibility of UK companies for R&D tax incentives
- •Table 2.5. Direct funding and tax incentives for R&D
- •Figure 2.3. Funding requirements lifecycle
- •Table 2.6. Taxonomy of types of support for early-stage companies
- •Executive Summary
- •A. Identifying industry-science linkages and the forms of public support
- •Figure 3.1. How the public and private sector can join forces in support of innovation
- •Table 3.1. Different categories and forms of industry-science relations
- •B. Supporting industry-science linkages at different stages of the innovation process
- •Table 3.2. Industry-science relations (ISR) and the institutional setting in public science
- •Table 3.3. Responsible Partnership Guidelines for Collaborative Research
- •Table 3.4. The types of technology that lead to spin-outs or established firm licenses
- •Executive Summary
- •A. Innovation support institutions and firms’ innovation activities
- •Table 4.1. Types of innovation support institutions
- •B. Business incubators
- •Box K4.1. What is a business incubator?
- •Box K4.2. Pre-incubation
- •Table 4.2. Performance evaluation: definition of key evaluation issues
- •Table 4.3. Performance evaluation: Definition of key performance evaluation indicators
- •C. Science and technology parks
- •Box K4.4. Different definitions of science parks
- •Table 4.5. Four science park models: Main features
- •Table 4.6. Profile of a typical North American university research park
- •D. Innovation clusters
- •Box K4.5. The main features of innovation clusters
- •Table 4.7. An illustrative framework for cluster monitoring, benchmarking and evaluation
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Source: Adapted from: Rahul Patwardan, “Best Practices for Managing Incubators”, available at http://www.indiaco.com.
C. Science and technology parks
Science parks – sometimes called research parks or technology parks (technoparks, technolopes), or combinations of those – are usually property-based ventures providing R&D facilities to technologyand science-based companies. Various definitions have been proposed, often differentiating among the categories of parks or focusing on some of their specificities (Box K4.3.).
Compared to typical business incubators, science and technology parks tend to be much larger in size, often spanning large territories and housing various entities from corporate, government, and university labs to big and small companies. Science parks do not necessarily offer a full range of business support and services but some parks may host a business incubator focused on early-stage companies. Typically, however, science and technology parks serve the post-incubator phase of company development or provide a launch pad for companies that are "spun out" from a university or company.