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R&D, Technological Innovation and Local Development: the role of science parks
The Promotion of R&D and the Effects of the Trieste AREA Science Park
In addition to making up for any lack of information that may affect the public’s opinion of AREA Science Park, its nature and its role, this publication is the first attempt to measure its effects on Trieste and the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region as a whole, examining the evaluations within an international scenario.
The research investigates the matter from the roots, highlighting how the socio-economic development of an area and its competitiveness have been demonstrated to depend less and less on traditional factors (raw materials, capital and workforce) and more and more on innovation, which is the key factor or, as the author describes it, the real motor of development.
It is therefore natural that the promotion of knowledge for economic and productive purposes and a suitable R&D policy are strategic requirements for all the world’s most industrialised countries. Italy’s substantial inferiority compared to other industrialised countries and its problems in rapidly diffusing new technology throughout the production circuit emerge from a broad and thorough analysis of the state of R&D.
The study also emphasises how it cannot be taken for granted that good R&D spontaneously produces innovation and increased competitiveness. It actually becomes clear that localisation factors are becoming increasingly important. These include the availability of information in support of innovation and service structures to help develop the competitiveness of the economy, that is to say the creation of a local value chain.
We can never go too far in stressing that producing knowledge and diffusing it are two different “crafts”, requiring different approaches and techniques to suit their different missions.
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