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This paper presents the details of 03 startup competitions, their results, the benefits they have provided for the environment and the society in general, and the prospects for the years to come in Porto Digitals sustainability area (ITgreen - Innovation and Sustainability).

This article aims to map the interactions of research groups with incubators and other internal and external stakeholders at the State University of Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, to identify the possibility of innovation for the creation of academic spin-offs. 

Recent conceptual approaches of economic and urban growth, in which the accumulation of knowledge is the fundamental driving force behind growth. Comparative study between Innovation Districts and Science & Technology Parks models and their shared characteristics and features.

Economic impact estimates associated with the operations and capital expenditures of companies located in parks.

The following document aims to demonstrate how, based on a close collaboration with its clients and a detailed knowledge of trends and a willingness to innovate constantly, the QMHTP has established a highly desirable living environment for technology companies and skilled workers.

Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel, the core institution of the Science Park, and the Knowledge Architecture lab of TU Dresden have jointly developed a concept for a new STP building. We describe the procedure of assessing different user groups and their specific and joint demands and needs, resulting in detailed demand profiles.

Business Model Innovation (BMI) is the number one business topic today for leaders, consultants and entrepreneurs. In the paper, the concept and the design process are outlined, as well as a program how to facilitate BMI in STPs.

How a critical mass could be reached by scaling programs beyond one city to areas of innovation and how accelerators and incubators could engage with startups in a way that addresses challenges. Options for creating investor communities but also address alternative models for funding startups with emphasis on the situation in emerging economies.

This paper compares the Surrey Research Park, which is a university planned and developed traditional science park, and Tech City, which is a unplanned self-generating area in London and has now been recognised and managed as a science park, reveals that many elements of these projects are transferrable but they do both have their shortcomings.

This paper outlines what clusters are and exemplifies the traditional methods of stimulating clustering behaviour before going on to defining and explaining the novel concept of Mini-Clusters as applied to the ICT industry and how it was successfully applied by one UK STP. 

This article presents the company statutes of the firm CriaLab Laboratório de Criatividade do Tecnopuc (Parque Científico e Tecnológico da PUCRS) - CriaLab the Tecnopuc Creativity Laboratory (of the PUCRS Scientific and Technological Park) associated more specifically with the Centre of Innovation.

Analysis of the opportunities and challenges of technology parks and incubators in the Brazilian eco-entrepreneurship related context.

By designing and implementing a culture of creativity and innovation that will allow the Parque Tecnológico Itaipu to become a high performance organization as well as a catalyst for creativity with important local, regional and other spill-over effects, a change process is on its way. This paper shows the history and motivations that led PTI to this important step.

It is important for technology parks to form strong bonds with city authorities, scientists, enterprises and even media in order to advance the creation of smart jobs, promote academic entrepreneurship and a variety of other means. In practice the communication and cooperation between all the actors of local innovation ecosystem is very difficult to achieve...

Strengthening the university-industry linkages and developing inter-firm learning capacity are the two key ingredients to achieve successful transformation.