- Territories and Innovation Systems: Cooperation Strategies between Universities and Companies in Taguspark    191 kb by    Fernandes, Manish & Duarte, Rui | mfbhatt@hotmail.com    Short Outline The territorial impacts of Science and Tech¬nology Parks in an era of knowledge-based economy have been an important issue in urban studies. However, a new approach is to be sought in order to promote innovation and the territorial development. Abstract Territories and Innovation Systems: Cooperation Strategies between Universities and Companies in Taguspark The aim of this paper is to analyse the municipality of Oeiras “Innovative Territorial Ecosystem” in the context of its Regional System of Innovation and to study the implications that the new dynamics systems promoted by the Science and Technology Parks (ex. Universities and R&D institutions) have in the development of the creative economy and in the competitiveness of the urban spaces. This research will focus on how cooperation strategies between universities and the entrepreneurial system can promote the development of STP’s into creative and innovative ‘Learning Villages’ (Sanz, 2001), improving the regional system of innovation. Firstly, it will be traced the portrait of the regional scale on R&D matters. Thus, choosing Taguspark as case study (the larger STP in Portugal), it will be held a diagnosis taking into account its territorial integration at the municipal level, its shareholders model, its practice of management and the strategies behind this new “urban atmosphere”. In this sense, it will be important to identify and describe the local institutions, its sectors of activity and the R&D entities main domains. On the other hand, there is needed to determine the quality of the local space, its identity and the urban “creative-friendly” environment it promotes. Finally, a set of strategic guidelines will be drawn up to improve the performance of cooperation practices between universities and companies, thus reinforcing this parks’ contribution to a more innovative regional and local development. Keywords Science and Technology Parks, Strategic cooperation between universities and companies, Regional System of Innovation, ‘Learning villages’ Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2005: Making Spaces for the Creative Economy   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper