Technology Park of Sao Paulo - building up a model to metropolitan regions of Sao Paulo State

Abstract

This paper is based on actions that have been developed by the authors to contribute to the public policies of the S&T and Economic Development Bureau of sac) Paulo State (SCTDE), to face the regional impacts and challenges of the new conditions due to the globalization of markets. The SCTDE Bureau concentrates the efforts on the following matters: to create new conditions to social and economic development of sao Paulo State; to stimulate the local innovation system in middle and highly population density regions of sac) Paulo (focalizing the metropolitan regions of Sao Paulo state); to stimulate and attract new businesses, opening up the academic institutions and research centers to regional society. To answer these challenges it has been considered the development of an institutional structure to optimize the university or research center/business co-operation — the model of a Technology Park. This model will be applied to the são Paulo Technology Park, taking advantage of the structure of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and other Research Centers (as IPEN and IPT) established in the campus.