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MEMBER COUNTRIES
ESCWA -- through the Technology and Private Sector/Enterprise
Development Teams as well as Regional Advisers -- has already been
approached to provide inputs in the design of technology parks and
technology/business incubators from public and private sector
institutions in a number of ESCWA member countries (see chart).
Furthermore, the fact that institutions in all ESCWA member
countries are in the process of either setting up park facilities,
contemplating their establishment or seeking advice on such
measures, is further evidence of the need for ESCWA to play a
well-defined role in this regard.
Technology parks and other new institutional forms can, and have
in the past, played an important role in technological capacity
building. They do this by bringing together, in the same physical
location, facilities that include R&D, manufacturing, high-level
training, technology and business incubation, financing
institutions, standardization and calibration laboratories,
testing and analytical facilities, industrial services and
facilities. Technology incubators afford an effective means of
disseminating new technologies as bases for new business ventures.
High-technology industry clusters have effectively fostered the
rapid introduction of new technologies into obsolescent
traditional industrial sectors. |
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Chart. Status of ESCWA members with respect to the establishment
of new institutional forms, namely, technology parks, incubators
and high-technology industry clusters
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