“Entrepreneurial University” and High-Tech Regional Development: National Chiao Tung University in the Promotion of “Taiwan Knowledge-Based Economy Park”
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Lin, Hui-Yi
Abstract
This research examines the rise of “entrepreneurial university” as an active agent for pro-growth high-tech regional governance and the resultant changes. Patent rights and value generation from R&D strengthen the financial support to assist collaboration between the private sector and the university. Due to dissimilar social, economic and political conditions in each setting, each university follows divergent paths to achieve such goals. The famous Hsinchu Science Park in the Hsinchu region recently observed the rise of multiple development projects pushed forward by its local growth coalition. The objective is to create a high-tech city with cultural attributes, thus attracting many universities to establish their second campuses on this site. National Chiao Tung University offers the best case of an “entrepreneurial university” here. Besides its mandate in teaching and research, the university regards economic gains from regional or national development as financial benefits of its own. Also, the university stresses much on innovation products developed from inter-collaborations between it, the governmental and industrial sectors. Capitalizing on network linkages with the Hsinchu Science Park industries, the university commits to solicit investments from them to large-scale land development projects it currently collaborates with the local government. Within this context, this research focuses on the case of “Taiwan Knowledge-Based Economy Park” of which National Chiao Tung University and Hsinchu county government are active agents. This research aims at examining variants of policy decisions from local or central governments which might strengthen or weaken incentives on collaboration between “entrepreneurial university” and the local growth coalition. The role that “entrepreneurial university” plays in high-tech regional development is an illuminating experience for all.
Subjects
Entrepreneurial university
high-tech region
pro-growth governance
Hsinchu
Taiwan Knowledge-Based Economy Park.
Type
thesis
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