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Sustainable Development of Technopolis:
Case Study of Daedeok Science
Town/Innopolis in Korea
Deog-Seong Oh
Abstract This chapter attempts to draw out transferable lessons for sustainable
technopolis development by analyzing the Daedeok Valley (DV) in Korea, the
attempt to redesign a technopolis by restructuring a pure science city (DST). This
chapter would discuss the definitions and key concepts of technopolis and sus-
tainability, and analyses the DV development progress toward sustainability
through in-depth analysis of the structure, industrial activities, and network
buildings. The major principles of sustainability (environment, equity, and futu-
rity) are used as the evaluation criteria for these development trends. The results
indicate that the DV development could achieve a higher level of sustainability
progress in most of the evaluation criteria when compared to former model of pure
science city (DST).
1 Introduction
Technopolis is a regional innovation strategy that generates sustained and pro-
pulsive economic activity through the creation and commercialization of new
knowledge (Preer
1992
). A technopolis is not merely a concentration of high-
technology firms or research and development organizations, but also a compre-
hensive urban development strategy with sustainable context. At the center of the
technopolis is the creative process of developing new technologies, translating
them into commercial products or processes, and taking a careful approach to
fostering competitive regional growth in terms of economic, social, and environ-
mental sustainability. A frequently raised question is ''how to measure the effec-
tiveness of technopolis as an instrument of regional innovation policy to stimulate
technology-led economic development and sustainable growth''.
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