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Building STP's Ecosystem: Kitakyushu
Approach

Sangryong Cha

Abstract In the last three decades since the 1980s the concept of science and
technology park (STP) has emerged from many academic and practical debates on
regional development. The concept has come to be used frequently, but often with
quite different meanings and images. A key reason for the popularity of this
concept is its capacity to cover the whole range of institutions and relationships
involving in process of creation of science, innovation of technology, improve-
ment of industry, and evolution of market based on its networking. It has given an
impression on policymakers who have been eager to find some useful measures for
regional economic development since an era of so-called new economy. Therefore,
STPs have been built as a core of supporting system for R&D, business incubation,
industrial clustering (networking and governance among entrepreneurs), man-
agement of sustainable innovation system, and infrastructure development for
regional economic prosperity in many regions of the world. In this chapter, we call
it STP's ecosystem.

1 Introduction

In the last three decades since the 1980s the concept of science and technology
park (STP) has emerged from many academic and practical debates on regional
development. The concept has come to be used frequently, but often with quite
different meanings and images. A key reason for the popularity of this concept is
its capacity to cover the whole range of institutions and relationships involving in
process of creation of science, innovation of technology, improvement of industry
and evolution of market based on its networking. It has given an impression on