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1.3 RIS Versus NIS

When a Regional Innovation System is completed in a region by STP, then the
sum of RIS will become National Innovation System (henceforth NIS). If a region
has a competent STP, as discussed in the previous pages, the region would have
three innovation areas; science and technology innovation, production system
innovation, and business service innovation. When these innovations are collab-
oratively conducted by a network of enterprises, universities, research institutes,
governments and business service agencies, the region can be classified as com-
pleted RIS (Fig. 3 ).
In Korea, there are 18 Technology Parks (henceforth TP). Each TP is supposed
to build an RIS platform in its metropolitan government area. There are seven
metropolitan city governments in Korea such as Seoul, Pusan, Incheon, Daegu,
Daejeon, Gwangju, and Ulsan. In addition, there are nine provincial governments,
which are also classified as metropolitan governments. Each of 16 metropolitan
governments has its own STP. There are two more STPs which are owned by
universities. Each of these 18 STPs builds the RIS in its own region. The sum of
these 18 RIS becomes NIS.

Fig. 3 National innovation system by STPs in Korea