The Role of the Research & Innovation Technology Park PIIT in the strategic creation of INNOVA City

Nuevo Leóns 110 hectares PIIT research park is already booked the totality of its first stage comprising 70 hectares and 33 research centers. The second stage is already underway with a 40 hectares extension totaling 110 hectares dedicated to research and development. The success of the park has already prompted the establishment of new urban policies in the surrounding area, comprising more than 2400 hectares, and the building of an alliance between the state and municipal governments, landowners and urban developers to build a new urban zone where creativity and innovation are nurtured in an integrated sustainable urban development. Up to the installation of the first center in the park in 2007, the area was mainly developed as an industrial zone, with low class residential zones to house manufacturing plants labor workers. Nowadays, the working personnel in the research centers in the park, comprised by engineers, masters and doctors, have reached 950, and the park is expected to create a number near the 6,500 highly qualified jobs by 2015. This type of creative and innovation workers, perceiving higher salaries, are demanding nearby housing and city amenities where entrepreneurs, engineers and designers from different disciplines can mingle and network.