ICT Cluster Development Strategy for High-Tech Industry Park in Mongolia - Technopolis: Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities - page 473

produces intangible products to shave no correlation in terms of distance or time. For,
promotion of an information technology industry as a knowledge-based industry has
huge potentials to serve as the remarkable stimulus for the economy of our country.
As a baseline, the provision 35 of ICT Vision 2010 indicates ''Set up knowl-
edge and education-based high-tech centers in Ulaanbaatar and the centers of the
socio-economic development regions.'' Following the ICT Vision 2010, ICTPA
has developed new policy document ''ICT vision up to 2021,'' which is going to be
approved by the parliament of Mongolia, have reflected more precise objectives
toward the high-technology industry development. Moreover, E-Mongolia
National Program provides several objectives toward ICT enabled economic
growth, such as accelerating and promoting ICT investment and application in the
economic sectors, fostering and expanding ICT application in enterprises and
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), developing domestic markets, position
local ICT Companies in external markets (ICT Mongolia 2011 ).
3.1 Legal Rationale
During the meeting with representatives of information, communications and
technology sector on January 19, 2010, the Prime Minister of Mongolia has given
directives to work toward building an ICT cluster to be similar format with Silicon
Valley, which would support development of information technologies and other
high-technological sectors in Mongolia.
Pursuing for those objectives, in June 2010, Government of Mongolia approved
the resolution to develop universities and colleges in a form of a university
campus and decision-related instructions were given to the Ministry of Education,
Culture and Science, the Information, Post, Communications and Technology
Authority, and the NDIC.
Accordingly, ICT cluster shall be developed in line with the university campus.
Having location close to a university campus, i.e., to academic research and
educational sector, will create the realistic benefits to coordinate activities of
industry, research and development and educational sector, and to compete in
international markets.
Furthermore, Parliament of Mongolia had approved the Law on Innovation in
2012 enabling legal environment for building the innovation system in Mongolia,
where have been defined legal status and operation of the science park.
3.2 Human Resource (JTIS LLC 2011 )
All these legal rationales shows that we are just in an initial stage of developing
ICT cluster in Mongolia. As mentioned before, resolution No. 320 of the Gov-
ernment of Mongolia issued in 2009 provides that the ''Industrial Training