Understanding Areas of Innovation Luis Sanz, IASP Director General Poznan, Poland | 20 th May 2015.

Understanding Areas of Innovation

Luis Sanz, IASP Director General Poznan, Poland | 20th May 2015

Poznan, Poland | 20th May 2015

IASP and Areas of Innovation

• In 2012 IASP opened its doors to Areas of Innovation:

Projects that share many objectives with STPsWork with similar elements and toolsYet are different in a number of aspects


STPs at a glance

• Designated areas• With a dedicated and specific

management• To host some types of companies (and

help the creation of new ones)• Supporting their growth and

competitiveness• Via added-value services and

connections to Universities


From a simple conceptto a galaxy of models

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Ann Arbor (SPARK)

Telecomm CorridorRichardson

City of AustinInnopolis

Amata Sc. City

Zhongguacun SP22@

Berlin AdlershofUtrecht SP

Porto Digital


YachayEcuador

Abuja Tech. VillageNigeria

KistaSweden

Smart VillagesEgypt

Multimedia CorridorMalaysia

SkolkovoRussia

Sofia Ant.France


75 4,8 133 700 78 321,4Km2

2006From 2003 1992 2001 2000 1991 20052011

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es

100010005000(600 tech)

225 7000(1500 KE)

1460(460 in STP)

2700

Staff 2256 85+51 74

(34+40)

740206+14

Basic facts


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Km

2

The area

• Size of the area does not define an AI• Some AIs are like big STPs


Date of creation

• Most AIs created in the 2000s• The AI concept follows the STP

concept

2006

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m

2003 1992 2001 2000 1991 20052011


Staff

• In terms of staff compared to STPs, AIs tend to be on the upper side of the scale.

• Average STP staff: 14

Sta

ff

2256 85+51 74(34+40)

74020(6+14)


Resident companies

In terms of resident companies, the bigger size of AIs compared to STPs implies:• A looser relation between firms and AI managers• “Head counting” of companies becomes more complex

in AIs

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pan

ies

100010005000(600 tech)

225 7000(1500 KE)

1460(460 in STP)

2700


From STP to AI: relative “distance”

STP

Utrecht SP

Innopolis

Telec. CorridorRichardson

City of Austin22@

Berlin Adl.

Ann Arbor SPARK

Porto Digital

Amata Sc. CityZhongguanun SP


What do AIs do?

• Strategic planning

• Property/facility management

• Support services for start-ups

• Support services for mature biz

• Innovation support (R&D / Tec. Transfer)

• Network management

• International relations

• Relation with stakeholders

• Marketing the area

100%

50% / Minor scale

100%

100%

88%

100% / intensely

100%

100%

88%


What do AIs and STPs do?

AIs STPsStrategic planning

Property/facility management

Support services for start-ups

Support services for mature biz.

Innovation support

Network management

International relations

Relation with stakeholders

Marketing the area






Innovation support

Network management



Marketing the area



The “geography” of AIs and STPs

• AIs: in pre-existing developed locations.

• STPs: in empty green field sites that need to be built and populated.

There are exceptions in both cases

• The property/facilities management has more importance in STPs.


Mission and appointment

• Common mission to STPs and AIs: economic development through technology/innovation.

Who assigns these tasks?

• STPs: external appointment (appointed by govs., etc.)

• AIs: external appointment but also self appointment


Hybrid use of space

• From working environments to living-playing-working ones.

• Coexistence of businesses and people.• Recovering and expanding an old concept:

cross fertilisation• A new dimension


Integration•Businesses•Educational centres•Residential areas•Service zones

within a spatial unit

From my paper: “From STPs to Learning Villages”IASP World Conference 2001 | Bilbao - Spain


Some STP features

• Outside cities / car-dependent

• Low density development

• Rigid norms regulating the use of the land

• Only ‘working areas’

• Lifeless for 2/3 of the day

in 1991!



The new Learning Villages can be “meaningful units” of the global society: global but locally-rooted, inhabited by global citizens, yet keeping solid marks of identity.

This new learning villages could give birth to “globapolitans with roots”



These new spaces may be an interesting solution for the further development of older cities



The “living” dimension

• The residential areas and the leisure or cultural spaces/facilities may or may not be managed by the AI management team.

• But they are an important element of the whole area, which exert a great influence, and must be always taken into account.

• The AI management team should, in any case, work for correct hybridisation (integration of all the elements).


A way to look at it

AI managers are applying

STP formulas and mechanisms

to a different kind of space.


5 initial conclusions

AIs and STPs have a lot in common

AIs take the STP concept to another level

AIs often apply STP ideas to pre-existing locations/communities

AIs sometimes apply STP strategies to revitalise urban areas

Gathering STPs and AIs in a common global network makes sense


Thank You.

Understanding Areas of InnovationLuis Sanz | [email protected]

Understanding Areas of Innovation Luis Sanz, IASP Director General Poznan, Poland | 20 th May 2015.

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