The contribution of a Technology Park for the improvement of educational system performance

A formal and structured implementation of the concept of Triple Helix in the environment of a Technological Park has great potential to promote the development of a region in all its various aspects. This is paper will present a case through a partnership coordinated by the Núcleo de Gestão do Porto Digital (Porto Digital Management Unit) that aims to improve the educational indicators of the state of Pernambuco by the application of games with educational content in a lively Olympiad among students from public schools in the region. Besides promoting the growth of school performance of the state as a whole, the partnership model presented here can be applied in other locations and replicated in several areas of the state as health, safety and transportation. That shows that technology park has evolved a long time from the initial concept of a large "condominium sales" becoming the key for implementation of public policies.