Science and technology parks, their networks, and influence on the growth of economy

Abstract

Research target is to quantify the importance of the outspread of science and technology parks as well as other analogous organizations in the countries featuring by different economic development level, as priority taking comparative assessment of such importance in the countries of very high economic development level (western countries), in the countries of “transitional” economy (countries of Central and Eastern Europe), in developing countries Science and technology parks, or analogous organizations, feature by particularly high significance in the countries, which belong to the category of modern economically developed countries, but which have not reached the top of GDP per capita level: these are the countries, where GDP per capita is from 10 to 15 thousand US dollars [...].