ABSTRACT
Technology parks have become a fashionable policy in local and regional economic development. Ultimately, technology parks more closely resemble new-style industrial districts than innovative milieux. In the mythology of high-technology creation, the Cambridge phenomenon has come to parallel Silicon Valley; it has become a worldwide image or symbol of the innovative milieu. The innovative milieu of Sophia-Antipolis thus consists of two relatively distinct classes of firms. First, there are outside firms which either organizes themselves in several units or entities operating as quasi-firms and developing partnerships, and those that seek related expertise and develop a common apprenticeship. Second, there are local firms, which tend to be narrowly related to research centers and to develop more specific technologies. In addition to providing the basic research and training infrastructure on which Hsinchu Park is based, the Government also devised a number of policies to attract firms into the Park.
