The impact of locating the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms in science and technology parks on their Innovation

Role of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) in supporting firms in different aspects to be more effective and profitable is clear to everyone. STP performance has a significant impact on every economy, regardless of at which level of development they are, so every economy needs to have a comprehensive report of their STP performances. In this paper, we aim to investigate the impact of establishing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms in STPs on their innovation, as Parks has provided a comprehensive convention from internal and external factors which affected the firm’s performance such as suppliers, financial suppliers and so on. In this regards, we have utilized data from a national innovation survey in Iran which covers 962 ICT firms to investigate whether on-park firms are more innovative or off-park firms. Results indicate that locating information and communication technology sector NTBFs inside science and technology parks has little impact on their technological innovation level in Iranian Science and technology parks.