Science Parks as Global Entrepreneurship Platforms

As a cluster organization, technology businesses located in a science park benefit from their inter-firm networks, as well as from their connections to university and governmental institutions. We based our project on Triple Helix to develop a model representing the evolution of the relative support of the agents involved in an innovation system in each stage of development. We took into account six born global companies of the La Salle Innovation Park in Barcelona and focused on the analysis of five main tracks determining the business development (technology, talent, finance, location and evolution) in order to internally validate the proposed model. As a result we found that the support provided by these three agents of the innovation system varied from one stage of development to another. The detailed results contribute to improve the effectiveness of the support programs for technology entrepreneurship.