technology parks
Research company clusters
Technology parks are planned developments where research institutions, technology companies, and startups cluster together, often near universities.
The proximity encourages collaboration and innovation: The city built a technology park to attract biotech firms.
Also called science parks or research parks.
Individual businesses within them may be called tech companies but not technology parks themselves.
- silicon valleyBay Area tech region
- acceleratorsThings that speed up
- startupsNewly launched businesses
- incubatorsControlled-environment growth chambers
- business incubatorStartup support program
universities · high-speed internet · spin-off · innovation hub · job creation · brain drain · venture capitalists · tax incentives · laboratories · foreign investment · commercialization · ecosystem · coworking spaces · urban revitalization · data centers · shared facilities · knowledge economy · applied sciences
- development policyregional cooperation, planning commissions, community development, rural development, urban renewal
- innovation ecosystemstech hubs, incubators, accelerators, innovation centers, tech incubators
- Public Institutionslocal councils, public archives, public hospitals, universities, social services
technology parksindustrial estates
Designated commercial property zones
mill towns · smokestack industries · assembly plants · factory towns · sweatshops
technology parkswilderness areas
Protected undeveloped natural regions
nature preserves · undeveloped land · untouched land · farmland · protected wetlands