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The role of organisation structure in the success of start-up science and technology parks (STPs)

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  • Mousa Al-Kfairy
  • Robert B. Mellor

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Start-up STPs have a central initiative controlling the decision-making. In early maturity, better decision-making is required and decisions are best taken with the input of optimally two on-cluster firms; this ambidextrous situation is superior under all circumstances. Where poor-fit innovations abound and where the STP has been unable to attract large firms, retaining a hierarchical decision process is most helpful, even when the quality of decision-making is poor. This developmental trajectory will lead to market failure as size, and the seriousness of the concomitant potential losses, increases. With time, off-cluster firms move outward, inhabiting a band 4–7 km from the STP; their size remains modest and their innovation output is low. On-cluster firms are resilient to externalities; their innovation output is large and strongly correlated with social/networking expenditure. These new results are reviewed here as a contribution towards a “road map” to help STP decision-making and regional policy.

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  • Mousa Al-Kfairy & Robert B. Mellor, 2023. "The role of organisation structure in the success of start-up science and technology parks (STPs)," Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 462-470, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tkmrxx:v:21:y:2023:i:3:p:462-470
    DOI: 10.1080/14778238.2020.1838962
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