University Research Parks and the Innovative Performance of Park Firms

大学研究园和园区企业的创新绩效

• 批准号: 0827976
• 负责人: Albert Link
• 金额: $ 19.09万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina Greensboro
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0827976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; Research; Parks; Innovative; Performance

ABSTRACT: This project develops a methodology and statistically implements a data collection and evaluation process for assessing the innovative performance of firms located on U.S. university research parks (URPs). The results from the assessment phase inform the public and private sector about locational investments in science and engineering (S&E) activities occurring on URPs. URPs have been an important element of our national innovation system for nearly half a century, and in 2007 the "Building a Stronger America Act" (S. 1373) was introduced in Congress under the stated premise that it is in the best interests of the Nation to encourage the formation of new parks and the expansion of existing parks in order to promote the clustering of innovation through high technology activities. Surprisingly, very little research has been undertaken on science/research parks, in general, or URPs, in particular. And, no research has been undertaken on the innovation benefits realized by firms that locate on U.S. parks. This project broadens our understanding of URPs as a component of our national innovation system; develops an assessment tool for assessing the innovation benefits realized by firms as a result of locating on a park; collects relevant data to implement this methodology and offers empirically-based statements on realized innovation benefits from on-park research synergies; and offers prospective statements about the organizational structure of URPs that will be most conducive to enhancing the research synergies among park firms on new or expanded parks.BROADER IMPACTS: The main intellectual outputs from this research are an assessment of the innovative performance of, and research outputs from, on-park firms relative to comparable firms that are not located on a park. As such, this project's broader impacts include, from a national perspective, the development of park-based science metrics and policy prescriptions to enhance university-driven S&E-based economic development through park formations and park growth. And, from a private-sector perspective, this project informs the locational consideration, and hence future research efficiency, of firms' S&E investments. The project's resulting science metrics inform the consideration of new innovation indicators specifically related to parks. The project's policy prescriptions inform not only Congressional deliberations related to the "Building a Stronger America Act" but also future state and regional S&E investment considerations for building new UPRs and/or expanding existing ones.

摘要：该项目开发了一种方法，并以统计方式实施数据收集和评估流程，以评估位于美国大学研究园区 (URP) 的公司的创新绩效。 评估阶段的结果向公共和私营部门通报 URP 上发生的科学与工程 (S&E) 活动的地点投资。 近半个世纪以来，URP 一直是我们国家创新体系的重要组成部分，2007 年，国会提出了“建设更强大的美国法案”(S. 1373)，其前提是它符合美国的最大利益。国家鼓励新园区的组建和现有园区的扩建，以通过高科技活动促进创新集聚。 令人惊讶的是，一般而言，对科学/研究园区或特别是城市规划项目进行的研究很少。 而且，还没有对位于美国园区的公司所实现的创新效益进行研究。 该项目拓宽了我们对 URP 作为国家创新体系组成部分的理解；开发一种评估工具，用于评估企业因落户园区而实现的创新效益；收集相关数据以实施该方法，并提供基于经验的陈述，说明园区内研究协同效应所实现的创新效益；并提供有关 URP 组织结构的前瞻性陈述，这将最有利于增强公园公司之间在新建或扩建公园方面的研究协同作用。 更广泛的影响：这项研究的主要智力成果是对创新绩效和研究的评估园区内企业相对于园区外可比企业的产出。 因此，从国家角度来看，该项目的更广泛影响包括制定基于公园的科学指标和政策规定，以通过公园形成和公园增长来加强大学驱动的基于科学与工程的经济发展。 而且，从私营部门的角度来看，该项目告知了公司科学与工程投资的地点考虑因素，从而提高了未来的研究效率。 该项目得出的科学指标为考虑与公园特别相关的新创新指标提供了信息。 该项目的政策规定不仅为国会有关“建设更强大的美国法案”的审议提供信息，而且还为未来州和地区建立新的普遍定期审议和/或扩大现有普遍定期审议的科学和教育投资考虑提供信息。