Title: A model for the design and development of a Science and Technology Park in developing countries

Authors: Maruf Sanni, A.A. Egbetokun, W.O. Siyanbola

Addresses: National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. ' National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. ' National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, PMB 012, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Abstract: This paper presents an appropriate model for Science and Technology Parks (STPs) with a view to helping policy makers and STP managers implement and manage STPs. The authors reorganise and prioritise the Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm. We identify three critical groups of actors (determinants, reactors and executors) and develop four sub-models from different trajectories of the groups of actors. We place more emphasis on the |determinants| as the most important actors in the establishment and management of STP. A critical evaluation of the sub-models reveals that the sub-model in which government, industry and university/research institutes are all jointly involved in decisive policy direction is the most appropriate for the developing country. This paper concludes that economies in transition should see STPs as having a distinctive organisational structure as a result of its myriads of collaborations and partnerships.

Keywords: enterprise development; STPs; science and technology parks; developing countries; Cabral-Dahab science park management paradigm; Regis Cabral; determinants; reactors; executors; transition economies; government policy; R&D; research and development; science paerks; collaboration.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2010.029761

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2010 Vol.8 No.1, pp.62 - 81

Published online: 02 Dec 2009 *

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