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Table 3 Four steps for business incubation at Chungnam Techno Park
Categories Pre-

Incubation

Main Incubation Post Incubation Production Site

Actors or
Functions

University
Students
Researchers/
Professors

R&D Activities
Business
Development

Proto-type
Production
Commercialization

Mass-Production
Marketing

Supporters University

Research
Institutions

University
Incubators
Technology
Parks

Technology Parks Industrial Park

Performances Contest for

Start-ups

Over 400
Companies in 17
Universities

Over 130 Companies
w/2,000
Employees

Over 60 Companies
w/3,000
Employees

Governance &
System

Facilitator,
Coordinator

Social Capital: Culture

Investment
via
Public Sector

Incentives
(Finance)

Collaboration Enterprises

Government
Support
System

Key Enterprises in
Specialization Industry

Investment
via
Private Sector

Physical
Infrastructure

Supporting Enterprises

Knowledge
Infrastructure

Technology
Infrastructure

Innovation
Infrastructure

Fig. 2 Completion of regional innovation system. Cf: modified from Andersson and Karlsson

( 2004 )

Fig. 2 is comparable to the position where formal system and indirect innovation
activities are met in Table 2 .
Thus, the formal system, whether direct innovation activities or otherwise, are
not enough to complete the RIS. The completion of RIS requires innovation
patterns where informal system and direct activities are met in Table 2 .Itisa
knowledge infrastructure in Fig. 2 . The cultural factors in Table 2 are the similar
concept of social capital in Fig. 2 .