Establishing sustainable Information and Technology parks
18 June 2009
The global best practice study International Good Practice for Establishment of Sustainable IT Parks presents the critical business success factors for setting up IT Parks with a review of experiences in Vietnam, Russia, and Jordan.
International Good Practice for Establishment of Sustainable IT Parks
Publisher: infoDev
In many
countries Information Technology (IT) Parks, which are also referred to
as Techno Parks, Cyber Parks and Science Parks, have been established
to facilitate the development of IT industries that foster new business
development and technological innovation by leveraging synergies within
a cluster environment. Given the potential complexity of these projects
and scope of required investments, the growing interest of governments
in developing and transition economies in designing and promoting such
projects, and their needs for policy advice and financial support from
the donor community, there is a pressing need for a synthesis of best
practices and lessons learned both from success and failure. To address this need, infoDev, in cooperation with the World
Bank Group, commissioned a global best practice study on IT Parks. The
study identifies five countries, from which a total of six IT Parks
were selected to get a representative sample covering both (i)
successfull and not-so-successful IT parks, and (ii) IT goods as well
as IT and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) services. The study
analysis has been based on the CLIP framework: Based on this framework, the study analyzes six IT Parks and
presents the critical business success factors for setting up IT Parks. The study also includes three in-depth country studies (Russia,
Jordan, and Vietnam), which assesses and benchmarks each country based
on the "critical business success factors" and provides recommendations
on Policy Development actions (e.g. policy, regulation, infrastructure,
and human capital) to be taken to address constraints.
IT Parks of Countries of Analysis
