TY - JOUR
T1 - Enriching innovation ecosystems
T2 - The role of government in a university science park
AU - Sun, Sunny Li
AU - Zhang, Yanli
AU - Cao, Yuhua
AU - Dong, Jielin
AU - Cantwell, John
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the funding and valuable help provided by the Suzhou Industrial Park and Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education District for information access. An earlier version of this manuscript was presented at IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON), 2017. We would like to thank the conference participants and Roberto S. Santos for their helpful comments.?This research is also partially funded by the Soochow University.
Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the funding and valuable help provided by the Suzhou Industrial Park and Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education District for information access. An earlier version of this manuscript was presented at IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference (TEMSCON), 2017. We would like to thank the conference participants and Roberto S. Santos for their helpful comments. This research is also partially funded by the Soochow University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - The direct top-down approach and indirect bottom-up approach are two ends of the spectrum in the role of government in developing an innovation ecosystem. Taking a hybrid approach, we develop the concept of the ecosystem enricher who fertilizes the interactions and linkages of multiple stakeholders in innovation ecosystems. In an in-depth case study of the Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District (SEID), we find that the local government has played an enricher role in directly driving university-industry connections from a mainly top-down approach. Yet many issues remain and more bottom-up policies are needed. We group these issues into three areas: priority setting in university development, university-industry collaborations, and innovation and entrepreneurship intermediaries. Our findings also highlight both the benefits and liabilities in the top-down approach of government policy in driving innovation ecosystems and how a hybrid of the top-down and bottom-up approach is needed.
AB - The direct top-down approach and indirect bottom-up approach are two ends of the spectrum in the role of government in developing an innovation ecosystem. Taking a hybrid approach, we develop the concept of the ecosystem enricher who fertilizes the interactions and linkages of multiple stakeholders in innovation ecosystems. In an in-depth case study of the Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District (SEID), we find that the local government has played an enricher role in directly driving university-industry connections from a mainly top-down approach. Yet many issues remain and more bottom-up policies are needed. We group these issues into three areas: priority setting in university development, university-industry collaborations, and innovation and entrepreneurship intermediaries. Our findings also highlight both the benefits and liabilities in the top-down approach of government policy in driving innovation ecosystems and how a hybrid of the top-down and bottom-up approach is needed.
KW - Government-led university science park
KW - Innovation ecosystems
KW - Regional innovation
KW - University-industry connections
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075131880&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.glt.2019.05.002
DO - 10.1016/j.glt.2019.05.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075131880
VL - 1
SP - 104
EP - 119
JO - Global Transitions
JF - Global Transitions
SN - 2589-7918
ER -
