Targeting economic development with science and technology parks and gateway cities: Schumpeterian possibilities of new developmental states in fostering local and global development

Patricia Alencar Silva Mello,Nelson Marconi,Mario Gomes Schapiro

doi:10.1590/0101-31572020-3114

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https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572020-3114

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate how innovative environments as a local strategic policy with particular features of the new entrepreneurial developmental state associated to what we call a Schumpeterian-style of policy can transform regions of middle-income countries, like Brazil. In particular, we sought to answer the following research question: how the São José dos Campos Science and Technology Park (STP-SJC) has been used as a tool to promote regional development? To answer it, having a logical model of this policy in perspective, we focus on this environment’s main objectives and empirically we performed a case study applying process tracing methodology.

Highlights

While the world’s attention is focused on the daily macro-decisions taken at the national level by several countries, regional public policies such as science and technological parks (STP) have been slightly exploited
We add to that theoretical perspective other intellectual analyses such as: studies exploring the development logic of a emerging network-economy dominated by many global production networks (GPNs) (Coe & Yeung, 2015) and studies elucidating regional development by the local buzz and global pipelines effect and the formation of gateway cities (Aarstad et al, 2016; Bathelt et al, 2004; Scholvin et al, 2017)
This is the most indicated method when causal inferences are sought in an in-depth study of a single case. It relies on evidences arising from a causal mechanism that provokes a result about which the researcher is interested. Through it we examined whether the incorporation or not of a new developmental and Schumpeterian strategy, explains the result that the policy has been achieving in terms of better connections in GPNs caused by a regional innovative policy to promote a broad development of regions located in middle-income economies in a way the region is transformed into a gateway city (Bennett & Checkel, 2015; Venneson, 2008)

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INTRODUCTION

While the world’s attention is focused on the daily macro-decisions taken at the national level by several countries, regional public policies such as science and technological parks (STP) have been slightly exploited. We add to that theoretical perspective other intellectual analyses such as: studies exploring the development logic of a emerging network-economy dominated by many GPNs (Coe & Yeung, 2015) and studies elucidating regional development by the local buzz and global pipelines effect and the formation of gateway cities (Aarstad et al, 2016; Bathelt et al, 2004; Scholvin et al, 2017) This theoretical body aims to examine local context with larger analytical and spatial categories. The theoretical contribution of this paper consists on associating STP as a strategic local policy of the new developmental state to the consequent externalities on global production networks including a gateway city formation It is structure in five different parts. The major results are presented and discussed to conclude highlighting the major findings and future possible investigations

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MAIN RESULTS

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