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Association of University Research Parks [[1]] is a non-profit association made up of university-affiliated research parks. Meetings of the association are hosted throughout the year at various different research and science parks.

A university research park is defined by AURP as a property-based venture, which has: Master planned property and buildings designed primarily for private/public research and development facilities, high technology and science based companies, and support services A contractual, formal or operational relationship with one or more science/research institutions of higher education A role in promoting the university's research and development through industry partnerships, assisting in the growth of new ventures and promoting economic development A role in aiding the transfer of technology and business skills between university and industry teams A role in promoting technology-led economic development for the community or region The park may be a not-for-profit or for-profit entity owned wholly or partially by a university or a university related entity. Alternatively, the park may be owned by a non-university entity but have a contractual or other formal relationship with a university, including joint or cooperative ventures between a privately developed research park and a university. Imagine the power unleashed when the science being created inside a university and the know-how inside a high tech business meet up. Imagine a place where knowledge workers and entrepreneurs have access to critical resources such as shared instruments and laboratories, science libraries, educational programs and other entrepreneurs with whom to work. Add in access to venture capitalists. This is the rich mixture that forms the pay dirt known as a university research park.

University research parks provide the path on which innovation moves from the lab into the marketplace. And as university research parks harness the power of education and research, the result is new jobs, new industries, and solutions to the age-old problems of mankind. With companies outsourcing jobs and manufacturing to various parts of the globe, the innovation and collaboration taking place in our university research parks provides the key to maintaining our economic competitiveness.

The world’s first university research park started in the early 1950’s, and foreshadowed the community known today as Silicon Valley. Another pioneering university research park set out to stop the “brain drain” from a rural, agricultural region which was then dependent on the tobacco industry. Today Research Triangle Park and the area around Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina is home to many of the world’s most advanced high technology businesses. These businesses employ over 40,000 people.

University research parks provide the landing pad that startup companies need when they are “spun out” from a university. Park-provided training in such areas as intellectual property law and business planning help the fledgling businesses to succeed. Universities, in turn, benefit by exposure to the business world, and the “spin in” of the cutting-edge research being conducted outside their walls in industry.

Students benefit by learning and networking with companies in university research parks, while at the same time the companies benefit from access to interns and graduates. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, students took advantage of the support provided by the RPI incubator and research park to start MapInfo Corporation, the first major desktop GIS software company. From their start as a project team in a Technological Entrepreneurship class, the RPI students seized the opportunity to propel MapInfo into a $150 million business. Today MapInfo employs over 900 people worldwide.

Venture capitalists are often intrigued by the investment opportunities that become available in parks, and they work to maintain close connections. These connections can result in startups finding their first “angel” investor. Frequently the investors are well-versed in management, which is skill that the new entrepreneurs need. This managerial guidance helps them navigate the complex world of technology transfer and venture funding, and can make the difference between success and failure.

Supplying an environment of innovation where a company can move when the time comes to outgrow the garage can be of enormous benefit, not just to the company, but to the economic development of its community as well. The Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana, was there when a Purdue chemistry professor decided to make the move from his garage. 32 years ago, Professor Peter Kissinger started Bioanalytical Systems, now known as BASi, a company which currently has annual revenues of over $42 million. The company has helped develop drugs that treat such illnesses as depression, migraine headaches, cancer, pain, HIV and central nervous system diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, while in the process providing jobs for over 380 people throughout the world.

University research parks present opportunities for joint public and private innovation and investment, and our nation’s university research park companies today provide over 313,000 Americans with high value employment in areas such as high technology and life sciences.

In such environments of innovation, startup businesses are provided the resources they need to flourish, forming new jobs and industries. More mature companies find university research partnerships, and easy access to startup companies and suppliers with which to work. As a means of creating sustainable prosperity for our country, university research parks are an important element of America's competitiveness: shelter in the gathering storm.[2]

Contents

[edit] List of Reseach Parks in North America

There are over 130 university research parks in North America today. Some of the more notable research parks across the world include:

[edit] Alabama

[edit] Arizona

[edit] California

[edit] Florida

[edit] Indiana

[edit] North Carolina

[edit] North Dakota

[edit] New York

[edit] Ohio

[edit] Saskatchewan

[edit] Texas

[edit] List of research parks in Asia

[edit] China

[edit] India

Technopark_Trivandrum (trivandrum)

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Qatar

[edit] Singapore

[edit] Taiwan

[edit] Thailand

[edit] List of research parks in Australia

[edit] List of research parks in Europe

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Czechia

[edit] Finland

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Italy

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Poland

  • Pomeranian Science and Technology Park, (Gdynia) [8]
  • Life Science Park, (Kraków) [9] (in development)
  • Poznań Science and Technology Park, (Poznan) [10]

[edit] Slovakia

[edit] Spain

  • Cartuja93 Seville,Spain [12]

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] List of research parks in South America

[edit] Brazil

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