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Regional Innovation Support Systems and Technopoles

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In the 1990s, technopoles, a land and property-led technology policy concept which aims at spatially clustering high-tech firms and R&D organisations, have been very popular among local, regional and national policymakers to boost regional economic growth. No matter how they are called, be it science parks, technopoles, high-tech centres, incubator centres, technology parks, technoparks, science cities or innopolis, they have given hopes to policymakers in many countries to boost regional technology transfer, innovativeness and hence competitiveness.

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Hassink, R., Berg, SH. (2014). Regional Innovation Support Systems and Technopoles. In: Oh, DS., Phillips, F. (eds) Technopolis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5508-9_3

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