Research Parks
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DECEmbER2009
CONTENTS
The Knowledge Economy,
1 TheKnowledgeEconomy
1 ForInnovation,ResearchParks
with its new features and necessities, has
generated its own type of “industrial estate”.
JustWork
2 UrbanResearchParksRebuildCities
FromWithin
2 TechnologyTransfer
3 RegionalReport:Europe
BY: LUIS SANz, DIRECTOR GENERAL, CEO, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE PARKS
4 WhatistheFutureof
ResearchParks?
4 RegionalReport:LatinAmerica
The pre-industrial economy gave way to guilds, concentrated in the heart of the old cities where many street
names remind us of these professions (Shoemaker Street,
Blacksmith Alley etc.).
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W
ith the emergence of the industrial economy, with its
huge factories and machines,
this urban location had to be abandoned
and moved to the outskirts of the cities to
lessen the impact of their contaminating
processes and high scale logistics. This was
how the industrial estates came about.
The Knowledge Economy has broken
many established concepts that were
until now considered untouchable. Its
new model of industrial environments is
known by different names, although all
share many common denominators: they
are the science, technology, or research
parks (STRPs).
Even though the quality of buildings
and infrastructures is much higher in
these environments than in the traditional
industrial estates, the real estate element
is not as important as the value received
by the business which comes from the
wide range of sophisticated services provided by the parks, such as:
• Tenant quality: companies selected on
the basis of their technological and
innovative capacity. Being in a park is
an accreditation which is of increasing
value worldwide
• Knowledge and technology transfer:
STRPs stimulate and manage contacts
between businesses and universities
• Specialized services: intellectual property advice, access to international
networks, use of labs and sophisticated
scientific equipment, contact with investors, venture and seed capital funds
and many others
• Contamination-free and clean spaces
In addition to this, the presence of
business incubators makes STRPs an
environment where the dynamism of
new entrepreneurs co-exists with the
experience of consolidated companies.
In its continuous evolution many parks
also have cultural, residential and leisure
options which reinforce their attractiveness not only towards businesses but also
for the skilful “knowledge workers”, helping their companies to attract and retain
talent. In short, STRPs are a formidable
springboard to reach higher levels of
competitiveness within ever increasingly
international and demanding markets
LUIS SANz
Director General, CEO
International Association of Science Parks
a very special thanks to...
The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) is a professional association of university related research, science 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.
You get better economic development and more jobs,” says Brian Darmody, associate
vice president for economic development at the University of Maryland and current
president of the Association of University Research Parks.
I
tion toward health care and high-tech,
research parks have become economic
hubs, in many ways replacing—and
improving on—the industrial park of old.
Business incubator-type industries create
20 times more jobs than traditional infrastructure projects, and at good wages;
for example, the average salary at jobs
created by a research park in Philadelphia
is $89,000.
“Research parks are part of the innovation infrastructure, just like when the
country was being founded,” Darmody
says. “We built the Erie Canal and the
transcontinental railroad, and we built
docks and piers and airports. In the innovation economy, in the knowledge economy, you need infrastructure like that.”
Mike Bowman, chairman and
president of Delaware Technology Park,
agrees. “In these times, we’re puzzled
as to why we’re not getting more of a
federal look at that rather than bailing
out the old,” he says. “We’re bailing out
banks, we’re bailing out car companies,
and that’s not going to make us grow.”
While it’s true that knowledge can
move across great distances with modern
communications infrastructure alone, in
practice there are countless obstacles to
the kinds of collaboration that produce
true innovation. The gulfs between pure
academic research and private industry,
and between different disciplines, often
obstruct the kinds of coincidences and
accidental collaborations from which
essential new tools, medicines, software
and other advances are born.
But with the right approach these
obstacles can be overcome, according to Horst Domdey, Managing
Director of the BioM
designed to facilitate such serendipitous
partnerships.
“They’re a broader group than just a
landlord,” Mike Kaminski says of Cortex,
a life sciences research park in St. Louis.
Kaminski is chief executive officer of
Stereotaxis, a publicly traded company
based at Cortex that makes magnetically
controlled cardiac catheters and other
medical devices. Stereotaxis was attracted to Cortex as a place to transform
technology developed at the University of
Virginia and the Livermore Laboratories in
California into a commercial entity.
At research parks, private industries and
universities share equipment, employees
and ideas. Former students go to work
for corporations, and former corporate
employees become professors. Research
Triangle Park hosts monthly luncheons for
research directors featuring peer speakers; it also functions as an efficient organizing principle for state infrastructure
investments, from North Carolina’s first
supercomputer in the 1980s to its biotech
center and business incubators today. As
Delaware’s Bowman observes, “A good research park is not like a moated castle; it’s
more of a community asset.”
©Clemson University 2008
t sounds obvious, but Darmody’s
assertion is an idea that’s still taking
hold. The first university research park
in the world was founded at Stanford
University in 1951, in part to connect GI
Bill college graduates with well-paying
jobs. This model—a high-technology
private industry park in symbiosis with
a research university—soon began to
thrive, and research parks appeared across
the United States and the globe.
“The very presence of a research park
implies inherently that a region or community is working to develop top-of-thefood-chain, higher-end employment,” observes Rick Weddle, president and CEO of
Research Triangle Park in North Carolina,
the nation’s largest. “It’s a leading indicator of economic growth, but it’s also a lagging indicator of the level of cooperation
that has existed in the region.”
With the economy’s
increasing orienta-
Biotech Cluster in Munich. “What you really
need is a creative environment, a kind of
playground which allows the scientists
to work on their—in many cases—crazy
ideas and hypotheses.” He describes an
“innovation culture” in Bavaria, where
more than 100 research groups from
academia and industry are coming together to focus on the field of personalized medicine and targeted therapies.
As for the civic benefits of research
parks, Darmody cites the example of
Dr. Rita Colwell, former director of the
National Science Foundation and now a
professor at the University of Maryland.
One of Colwell’s research interests is
tracking the spread of cholera. Thanks to
the draw of the University of Maryland
Research Park, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), whose
bailiwick does not include infectious
diseases, moved some of its offices in next
door. It turned out that NOAA software
for modeling coastal water flows could
also be used to track cholera, a waterborne pathogen. Colwell discovered that
epidemiologists could use the software to
predict cholera’s spread in weeks, rather
than months, ultimately saving lives.
Research parks are increasingly
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Urban Research Parks Rebuild Cities From Within
At one time, South Bend, Indiana, had two famous faces. One was Studebaker, the
legendary automaker. The other was the University of Notre Dame, 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.
S
tudebaker closed up shop in
1963, and other manufacturing
companies have followed them
into the archives. Meanwhile, Notre Dame
has become a powerful research center.
But the producing culture of South Bend
remained under utilized.
Cities around the United States are
looking to research parks to catalyze the
process of bringing academic research
to market, and therefore to catalyze their
economies. Parks in South Bend, Philadelphia, Baltimore and St. Louis exemplify the
advantages of research parks for urban
revitalization.
“We have a tradition of learning how
to make things,” says South Bend Mayor
Steve Luecke. “There’s a strong history
here of entrepreneurism and a support
system in place, businesses that can
provide things that startup businesses
need, and a culture supportive of
entrepreneurship.”
The perks of urban research parks are
many: from the history and the business
infrastructure Luecke describes to the
vital, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods
abutting most university campuses.
Luecke worked with Notre Dame for
several years to develop plans for a twosite research and technology park in
South Bend. Innovation Park opened this
fall across the street from the university,
and Ignition Park will soon open on the
old Studebaker manufacturing grounds
as a place for companies that outgrow the
incubator at Innovation Park.
What South Bend can look forward to
as these parks grow is shown by the history of America’s oldest urban research
park, the University City Science Center in
Philadelphia. Since it was founded in 1963,
the Science Center has supported over
350 organizations. The vast majority of
those that remain in business today have
remained in the region, accounting for
well over 15,000 jobs directly, and almost
three times that many indirectly.
In Baltimore, the Science + Technology
Park at Johns Hopkins University is rising
from the ashes of a neighborhood used as
a backdrop for “The Wire” due to its blight.
The first of five planned buildings opened
in April 2008. Scott Levitan, a senior vice
president with Forest City, which is building the Hopkins park, notes: “In our parks,
what you’ll find is that we usually get
engaged with institutions that are looking to do more than just lab buildings.
We have housing, we have retail, we have
green open space; so most of the institutions that engage us to do these parks are
looking to build a 24/7, fully sustainable
community.”
St. Louis’s Cortex research park, opened
in 2005, is already revitalizing another
run-down neighborhood between Washington University and St. Louis University.
“We were able to take around 18,000
square feet and mold it exactly as we
needed it,” says Shelton Caruthers, a professor and researcher in advanced imaging and nanomedicine at Washington
University’s School of Medicine whose
department relocated to Cortex. “We took
five or six different labs separated by stairs
and halls and elevators, and put them
under one roof on one floor.”
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Technology Transfer:
From Invention to Innovation
Sometimes great ideas stumble out the doorway of
the ivory tower into the light of day, but too often they
get lost in a spiral staircase. Most research parks aim
to guide such marketable, or “translational,” research
into the light of private investment, where it can thrive
and work toward better health and quality of life for
everyone. This commercialization of research is known as
“technology transfer.”
Center. The initiative’s goal is to bridge
some gaps in Massachusetts’s otherwise
thriving “information pipeline” from the
state’s many top-notch universities to its
equally prestigious biotech companies
and hospitals.
To achieve a similar goal, the State of
Illinois has invested capital dollars in its
research parks. “Over the past 10 years,
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“O
ne of the most important
things that happen in a
university—besides the
education of the students—is the generation of new knowledge and new discoveries that ultimately don’t matter much
if they don’t make way into the marketplace,” says Joe Hornett, senior vice president and COO of the Purdue Research
Foundation in West Lafayette, Indiana.
The mere proximity of university
researchers and private investors in a
research park complex can be enough
to connect translational research with
investment. Research parks also actively
cultivate technology transfer through
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 technology transfer process in its early phases,
says Susan Windham-Bannister, president
and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. In these circumstances it
makes sense for the government to step
in and encourage translational research in
its early phases to prepare the ground for
private investment.
“What we as a quasi-public entity can
do is we can afford to place some bets
on promising entrepreneurs that private investors have been slow to fund,”
Windham-Bannister says. The State of
Massachusetts recently launched its Life
Sciences Initiative, a 10-year, $1 billion
public investment in the life sciences
with its “super-cluster” at the Life Sciences
state’s strategy to promote technology
transfer,” said David Baker, Executive Director of the University Technology Park
at IIT. “That has led to real cooperation in
joint marketing of our assets, dialog on
best practices and the sharing of leads.”
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In europe Many approaches, One Goal
In March of 2000, leaders from across
Europe gathered in Lisbon to set economic goals for the following decade.
The broad aim of the Lisbon Strategy,
as the output of this summit came to be
known, was to “make Europe, by 2010,
the most competitive and the most dynamic knowledge-based economy in
the world.”
As that benchmark date nears, there
is broad consensus that Europe has not
achieved all of its goals, but there is also
plenty of evidence that many initiatives
have proven valuable and successful.
“In Europe there are now many
countries with a very strong innovation
system, including very open connections between government, the academy and industry,” says Sten Gunnar
Johansson, CEO of the Mjardevi Science
Park in Sweden. “This is what we call the
‘triple helix’.”
With a strategic direction determined
at the EU level, individual countries
have taken it into their own hands to
guide and implement that strategy. In
Belgium, according to Rudy Dekeyser, Managing Director of the Flemish
Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB), “the government has implemented an overarching spectrum of
instruments to facilitate the recruitment
of both capital and human capital, two
key components in the establishment
of a competitive life sciences research
cluster.” Research parks in the region
of Flanders now comprise over 130
companies and employ more than
20,000 people.
As a diverse economy, Europe
provides numerous models for supporting research and commercialization. “It does vary across Europe,”
says Malcolm Parry, director of the
Surrey Research Park in England, “The
northern European model is that we
focus more on the pre-incubation and
incubation of companies.”
This emphasis has paid dividends,
according to the European Business
School’s Innovation for Development
Report 2009–2010, which named
Sweden and Finland the two most
innovative economies in the world.
Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK
and Norway also made the top ten.
Another advantage claimed by
many European researchers and policymakers is that the smaller size of
the countries allows for greater internal connectivity. Christoph Ebell, the
science and technology counselor at
the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, suggests his own country as an example. “Switzerland can be seen as one
big research park or cluster with all the
necessary components present: world
class researchers and infrastructure,
funding, capital, innovators, entrepreneurs, global players and an educated
and highly skilled workforce.”
Malcolm Parry of England sees
increased cooperation among the
‘triple helix’. “We’re moving away
from purely university parks towards
commercial science parks,” he says.
Austrian scientist Josef Penninger,
Director of the Institute of Molecular
Biotechnology in Vienna, points to a close
relationship between his researchers and the pharmaceutical company
Boehringer-Ingelheim as a source of
heightened innovation.
“Most science, despite modern ways
of communication, happens in the
cafeteria,” Penninger says. “I am a firm
believer in the powers of direct human
communications.”
Brazilian
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Brazil: A promising market with solid economic growth and
innovative environments for organizations, investors and industry.
Contacts:
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ANPROTEC Brazilian Association of Science Parks
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anprotec@anprotec.org.br
Phone: +55 61 3202-1555
Research parks in the region of
Flanders now comprise over
130 companies…
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> 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
Flanders,
the region where biotech
never stopped booming…
Flanders is a leading life sciences region, situated in Belgium, in the heart
of Europe. Still going strong, it offers excellent opportunities for biotech
companies. In the past months, both private and public companies have been
able to successfully raise money.
Argen-X ($18.84m), Pronota ($9.8m) and Okapi Sciences ($12.75m) completed
private investment rounds. Listed companies such as Thrombogenics ($61.79m),
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.
Interested investors or biotech companies please contact
Dirk Iserentant, Invention Analyst, VIB
tel +32 9 244 66 11 I dirk.iserentant@vib.be
The Bio-Accelerator: Flanders’ most recent ‘building on the
block’: 120,000 sq ft dedicated infrastructure for life sciences
companies, with another 120,000 sq ft in the pipeline.
An excellent opportunity for life sciences companies!
www.bio-accelerator.com
> 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
for the recruitment of capital and
human resources
> one of the world’s most favorable
tax systems: only 6.8% on sales of
patented drugs
> excellent facilities available for
life sciences companies, totaling
300,000 sq ft dedicated
infrastructure in the Bio-Accelerator
and several Bio-Incubators
www.biotechinflanders.be
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What Is The Future Of Research Parks?
Entrepreneurial leaders and researchers might not be expected to talk about “research
clouds,” “flow,” “serendipity management,” “knowledge ecosystems,” “co-presence” and
“trust” in their day-to-day business lives. But ask them to predict the future of research
parks and their Ouija boards start speaking in horoscopic tongues.
l
ast June, the Research Triangle
Park and the Institute for the Future released a report titled “Future
Knowledge Ecosystems.” This insightful
report lays out three possible futures for
research parks over the next twenty years.
In one scenario, called “Science and
Technology Parks 3.0,” research parks
will adapt and become more complete
hybrids of academia and business, with
environmentally sustainable campuses.
But they may sometimes be bypassed as
innovation becomes more decentralized
online and internationally.
James zuiches, vice chancellor for
extension, engagement and economic
development at North Carolina State
University in Raleigh, sees a blueprint for
Research Park 3.0 in NC State’s Centennial
Campus. “We really see ourselves as the
research park of the future,” he says. The
Centennial Campus is a new-model university 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 community,” zuiches says, with condominiums, a
middle school and a golf course adjacent
to university academic “neighborhoods,”
private corporations, nonprofit institutions and government agencies. In coming
decades, this greater interweaving of research parks with their communities might
indeed become the standard paradigm.
In a second scenario, the decentralization of research and innovation will
atomize the work of research parks into
“research clouds” floating around universities, and traditional parks will struggle to
keep up. “Pop-up” labs could appear for
a season to develop a given technology,
then fade. Universities will be weighed
down with history and tradition.
One prototype is at the
Joensuu Science Park in
Joensuu, a city of less
than 100,000 in the North Karelia region in eastern Finland. In 2006, Network Oasis opened its doors as a nearly
13,000-square-foot facility that businesses, university professors, researchers,
and students can rent space in – by the
minute.
Ilkka Kakko, who helped plan the Oasis,
gives a European take on the future of research parks: “They should be, more and
more, places where people should meet
more randomly and ad hoc. Research
parks should work on trying to increase
the diversity among their clientele. So
far, it looks like science parks are no
longer very attractive to the younger generation. Young people feel they are too
rigid or too businesslike. They like this
more relaxed environment.”
Kakko has worked to develop methods
for “serendipity management” and “open
innovation” to discover ways to best facilitate the ad hoc collaborations he describes. “Otherwise it will happen in coffee shops and bars,” he says. “It would be
nice to have it related to the science park
environment.”
Finally, according to the Institute for
the Future report, there is the third possibility that high energy costs and other
economic changes could render research
parks, and a substantial amount of their
work, infeasible. Most collaboration would
happen online, and aging research parks
could become technological “hotels” as necessary.
Cloudy as the crystal ball is, some things
are clear: in coming years, research parks
will have to be quick on their feet to adapt
to scientific and technological fields that
are ever mutating and ever more decentralized. And they will have to keep their
focus on the research park’s raison d’être:
collaboration.
“Collaboration is not often pretty,”
says Rick Weddle, president of Research
Triangle Park and one of the authors of
the report. “It’s rarely easy to understand.
You can’t pass a rule that says, Tomorrow we’re going to collaborate. It has to
become embedded in the culture.”
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Technology Parks in Latin america: Leveraging Innovation and Development
Latin America has undergone tremendous growth in technology parks during
the first decade of the 21st century. There
are nearly 100 Parks in operation or being
installed, involving almost 1,000 technology-based companies. This phenomenon
has some common factors: the role of
business incubators, the importance of
networks and associations and the need
for consistent public policies.
These technology parks are mainly the
result of an initiative to stimulate and promote an entrepreneurial and innovative
culture through the creation of business
incubators associated with universities.
These incubators contribute directly to
the economic and technological development of regions, and they also inspired
the region’s first tech park projects.
Secondly, the region has a wealth of
networks or associations that promote
cooperation among the technological
parks. These networks run on a national
or regional level, promoting the exchange
of knowledge, generation of business and
interaction between parks. National associations such as ANPROTEC in Brazil, and
regional networks such as the Latin Amer-
ican Network of Associations of Parks and
Incubators (RELAPI) stand out in this context, in addition to the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), which has
a special Latin American division.
The third common element is related to
national and local public policies to promote innovative entrepreneurial activity. With rare exceptions, Latin American
countries still invest very little in incubators and parks, in comparison with the
USA, Europe and Asia. On the other hand,
the few existing efforts have produced
promising results both in terms of return
on investment, job creation, income and
economic development.
One such effort, in Monterrey, Mexico,
is already beginning to reap dividends.
Home to the Science and Technology
Parks Network of Tecnologico of Monterrey and the well-publicized PIIT Monterrey Research and Innovation Technology
Park, the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon is
aiming to move from an industrial economy to an innovation economy.
“The plan of the Mexican government
is to have at least 30 parks in the next 5
years,” says Jose Manuel Aguirre of the
Tecnlogico of Monterrey. “Our R&D capabilities are still emerging, so our parks
need to be customized to the reality of
Latin America.”
Jose Eduardo Azevedo, the IASP Latin
American Division President and CEO of
Sapiens Park in Brazil, is optimistic that
these parks throughout the region can
succeed. “It is a fact that Latin America still
has long way to advance in the fields of innovation and sustainable development,”
he says. “It is another fact that Technology
Parks are contributing decisively to help
overcome this great challenge.”
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businesses, the University City Science Center is creating an unparalleled
regional center for accelerating the commercialization of innovations in life
sciences, energy and environment, communications, IT, nanotechnology and
emerging technologies.
Delaware Technology Park is home to early stage companies and cutting
edge research focused on life sciences, materials, software. The recognized
success of the park led the University of Delaware to plan expansion of the
concept to a larger site adjacent to the campus and vibrant community.
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TRIanglE PaRK CaMPUS
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12 Davis Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919 549 8181 • www.rtp.org
The Ericsson Research Triangle Park Campus is comprised of two Class A
buildings totaling 420,000 square feet. The buildings are surrounded by corporate campuses unique to the rest of the Raleigh/Durham market. The two
buildings are recognized for their unique architectural appeal, and extraordinary technology infrastructure.
800 S. Salisbury St. PO Box 2978 Raleigh, NC 27602-7099
919 664 7048 • www.raleigh-wake.org
NC State’s Centennial Campus is an extraordinary success story—a university research park and campus that provides its corporate, governmental and
non-profit partners unusually close proximity to a highly educated workforce
in a collaborative, amenity-rich environment.