ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the future lessons for technopoles in the context of the new knowledge economy. The chapter aims to reinvigorate and revive the technopole concept by re-situating it in the context of the contemporary social knowledge economy. It provides a synthesis of the lessons emerging in the case studies following the framework provided in the introduction, namely synergy management, governance and evaluating these complex constellations. It argues that there are different kinds of proximity such as distinction of organisational, cognitive, geographical, cultural and social, this seems to miss the question of how these kinds of proximity are coupled to particular places and physical forms such as technopoles. The chapter addresses the emergence of innovation ecosystems and begins to engage with ideas of collective leadership. It highlights the importance of synergies for the success of technopoles, of ways of resolving different interests between actors, and coupling a variety of processes around a single physical space.
