Abstract
In Brazil, as well as worldwide, incubators and science and technology parks (ISTPs) are continually used to foster regional development. However, the incongruence between the growing number of ISTPs and the inconclusiveness of their results raised preoccupations regarding their effectiveness and doubts on how they promote innovation. In spite of the growing possibility and need for quantitative research, few studies have adopted this methodological perspective. The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of resources promoted by ISTPs on the results of their tenant's R&D projects. A quantitative cross-sectional design was used in this study. A higher specificity in the observation and analysis of ISTPs contributed to the advance of literature, so that a taxonomy of resources promoted by ISTPs was proposed and the key resources associated to R&D results could be identified.
Highlights
The development of incubators and science and technology parks (ISTPs) as mechanisms of promotion of innovation emerged in the Silicon Valley and Route 128 in Boston in the 1970s (Lahorgue, 2004) and continues to inspire similar initiatives around the world
The relations between the results found in this study and what is presented in the literature are limited mainly by the differences in the level of analysis, which confers an exploratory character to this study
The structure of managerial levels proposed by Crossan and Apaydin (2010) in the context of innovation was adapted to organize and associate the resources promoted by ISTPs to the results of R&D projects
Summary
The development of incubators and science and technology parks (ISTPs) as mechanisms of promotion of innovation emerged in the Silicon Valley and Route 128 in Boston in the 1970s (Lahorgue, 2004) and continues to inspire similar initiatives around the world. Massey, Quintas, and Wield (1992) are especially skeptical about the role of ISTPs in the socioeconomic development in some regions of the United Kingdom They argue that public policies that support these institutions are deeply problematic. These authors suggest that the parks result in fragmented social structures, distorted economic and geographic development and even technological stagnation These uncertainties lead some authors (Lahorgue, 2004; ex.: Massey et al, 1992) to propose that the institutional justification for their proliferation is mimetic isomorphism (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983) – or “fads”. Another explanation for this may be related to different understandings with regards to the role of ISTPs and to the resulting management models that are chosen
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