A science park is a property development designed for a concentration of high tech or science related businesses. Prominent examples include the Cambridge Science Park in England and the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. High tech refers to high technology, technology that is at the cutting-edge and the most advanced currently available. ... // What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Business refers to at least three closely related commercial topics. ... The Cambridge Science Park is the oldest and most famous science park in the United Kingdom. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Hsinchu Science Park (Chinese: 新竹科學園區; Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«nzhú KÄ“ Xué Yuán QÅ«) was established by the government of the Republic of China on December 15, 1980. ...

The Cabral Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm has been influential in the management of science parks around the world and lays down the following conditions for a property development to be considered a science park. It must: Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Since the late 1800s, the word paradigm has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. ...

• Have access to qualified research and development personnel in the areas of knowledge in which the park has its identity.

• Be able to market its high valued products and services.

• Have the capability to provide marketing expertise and managerial skills to firms, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, lacking such a resource.

• Be inserted in a society that allows for the protection of product or process secrets, via patents, security or any other means.

• Be able to select or reject which firms enter the park. The firm's business plan is expected to be coherent with the science park identity.

• Have a clear identity, quite often expressed symbolically, as the park's name choice, its logo or the management discourse.

• Have a management with established or recognised expertise in financial matters, and which has presented long term economic development plans.

• Have the backing of powerful, dynamic and stable economic actors, such as a funding agency, political institution or local university.

• Include in its management an active person of vision, with power of decision and with high and visible profile, who is perceived by relevant actors in society as embodying the interface between academia and industry, long-term plans and good management.

• Include a prominent percentage of consultancy firms, as well as technical service firms, including laboratories and quality control firms

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises or SMEs are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful. ... A professor teaching in a university A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Management consulting (sometimes also called strategy consulting) refers to both the practice of helping companies to improve performance through analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans, as well as to the firms that specialize in this sort of consulting. ...

Original Sources

Cabral R. and Dahab, S. S. (1993) 'Science Parks in Developing Countries: The Case of BIORIO in Brazil'. In Biotechnology Review No. 1: The Management and Economic Potential of Biotechnology, vol. 1, pp. 165-178.

Echols, A. E. and Meredith, J. W. (1998) 'A Case Study of the Virginia Tech Corporation Research Centre in the context of the Cabral-Dahab Paradigm, with Comparison to Other US Research Parks', Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 16, pp. 761-777.

Cabral, R. (1998) 'Refining the Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm', Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 16, pp. 813-818.

R. Cabral (ed.) (2003) The Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas, Uminova Centre, Umeå, Sweden.

Cabral, R. (2003) 'Development, Science and' in Heilbron, J. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to The History of Modern Science, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 205-207.