Roles of university, local government and industry played in the innovation network building and governance of Dutch university anchored Science Park

Abstract

With the development of knowledge economy, innovation ecosystems emerged and science parks as localized innovation ecosystems have been adopted as strategies of business support and technology transfer largely around the world. The establishment of science parks aims to create knowledge spillovers and work as catalyst to stimulate regional and national economic growth. However, as literature shows, although widespread perception of SPs as facilitators of linkages building of on-park actors and many empirical studies confirm this perception, considerable numbers of empirical studies have provided weak and even contradictory results. A reason why some science parks are not as successful as they are expected is the weak innovation network building environment and insufficient using of innovative resources. Therefore, this study proposed innovation network building and governance that can contribute to the interaction between different parties and stimulate resources flow. The triple helices of university-industry-government interaction play essential roles in the innovation network building and governance processed. They can provide variety of resources in to science parks, thus stimulating innovation through their collaboration. This research aims to provide a theoretical debate on whether innovation network building and governance can influence innovative linkages building of on-park actors and build a conceptual framework of the roles of university, local government and industry played in the innovation network building and governance processes.