Abstract

Technoscience parks, a policy tool in the 1970s and 1980s, have remained a popular policy tool today,particularly in response to the urgency of developing and strengthening knowledge-based economic growth. Ingeneral, this paper examines the historical evolution and potentials of technoscience parks as innovation supportsystem in Malaysia. Specifically this study aims at exploring the motivating and hindering factors to successfuldevelopment of technoscience parks in Malaysia. To achieve the stated objectives, this study employs acombination of case study, document-research, and interviews. Based on case studies conducted on severaltechnoscience parks in Malaysia, it is found that the Malaysian technoscience parks are still lagging behind othertechnoscience parks in the world. Their roles are very much confined to low value-added activities with lessemphasis on innovative performance. This article claims that a reassessment of the roles of technoscience parksshould be given due consideration This article highlights the great potentials of technoscience parks as the vitalsupport systems of innovation in Malaysia in enhancing effective governance of sustainability in science andtechnology. This study also offers some policy and managerial recommendations which they can take to reviewtheir progress, their plans as well as their roles in the innovation ecosystem.

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