This paper maintains that science-industry complexes (SICs), with science parks as the grassroots units, present a tripartite structure of parks, zones and belts in their spatial layout. In their morphological system,...This paper maintains that science-industry complexes (SICs), with science parks as the grassroots units, present a tripartite structure of parks, zones and belts in their spatial layout. In their morphological system, parks act as the building bricks of the zones and belts, while the latter two are the outward expansion of parks, leading to spatial diffusion and the transfer of hi-tech knowhow and hi-tech industry. Viewed from the temporal sequence, a park is the starting point for the growth of a zone or a belt, while a zone or a belt is the evolutionary outcome of parks, reflecting sequential advances of an innovation chain.Based on this viewpoint, this paper attempts to make a case study on the morphological development of hi-tech zones and belts in this country. The paper concludes that there are two developmental patterns which Chinese SICs are destined for. One is a zone that incubates a group of parks and the other is a cluster of zones forming a belt. Such an evolutionary process results from展开更多
文摘This paper maintains that science-industry complexes (SICs), with science parks as the grassroots units, present a tripartite structure of parks, zones and belts in their spatial layout. In their morphological system, parks act as the building bricks of the zones and belts, while the latter two are the outward expansion of parks, leading to spatial diffusion and the transfer of hi-tech knowhow and hi-tech industry. Viewed from the temporal sequence, a park is the starting point for the growth of a zone or a belt, while a zone or a belt is the evolutionary outcome of parks, reflecting sequential advances of an innovation chain.Based on this viewpoint, this paper attempts to make a case study on the morphological development of hi-tech zones and belts in this country. The paper concludes that there are two developmental patterns which Chinese SICs are destined for. One is a zone that incubates a group of parks and the other is a cluster of zones forming a belt. Such an evolutionary process results from
