Box 14.2
A technology of technopoles
Four main types of technologically innovative milieux can be indentified
1.There are industrial complexes of high technology firms in which reseach and develop and manufacturing are linked. Some, such as Silicon Valley, are created entirely from the growth of new high technolog firms.
2.Science cities are reseach complexes with no direct link to manufacturing. The intention is to generate a high level of of scientific excellence though the synergy created by agglomeration.
3.Techmology park aim to induce new industrial growth, in terms of jops and production, by attracting high technology manufacturing firms to a privileged space These emanate from governments or universities initiatives
4.Technology may also be instruments of regional development and industrial decentralisation, the major example begin the Technopolis programme initiated in 1984 in japan