Caen Science Park: from traditional science park management to a prospecting and eco-system management model

Caen-Normandy has developed the EffiScience Science Park, specialised in ICST, NFC, hosting world-renown tenants like NXP. Since 2007, all traditional ingredients have been put in place to ensure the success story of this Science Park: services to the tenants and their employees, pleasant working environment and building design. However a new step should be undertaken in order to ensure its continuous growth and attractivity which means revisiting the management and organisation of this science park. Local stakeholders, especially the economic development agency Synergia, and the urban planner Normandie Amenagement, are aware of the necessity to manage the science park at different levels of eco-systems: integrated in its environment, in regional and network logics. Anew model of well-built governance mobilising all type of territorial players is under construction, aiming at a co-development and a reinforced attractivity of the science park, especially through a coordinated prospecting strategy.