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Competing Asian science parks come to Jeju to learn best practices7th annual ASPA Leaders Meeting 'is Jeju's first step to actually help our science park tenants go to the global market' says event organizer
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¡ã Korean companies show off some of their high-tech wares at the exhibition area of the ASPA Leaders Meeting. Photo by The Jeju Weekly

Over 300 of Asia’s top personnel in scientific technology and industry as well as heads of state from nine countries including Finland, Russia, Japan, and Korea came to Jeju for the 7th Asian Science Park Association (ASPA) Leaders Meeting.

In its 10 year history, this event marks the first time for the Jeju Science Park to host an international conference.

This three-day conference from April 23 to 25 at the Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel and the Elite Building within the Jeju Science Park (JSP) was held with the purpose of discussing ways to better utilize science parks in the region.

A science park is as a well-organized complex that serves as a foundation to further knowledge industries like IT from a business point of view. The JSP, built by the JDC and opened on March 25, 2010 in Ara-dong, Jeju City, was established to help bring to life the government’s goal of making Jeju a Free International City.

Under the theme of “Future Strategies of Asian Science Parks — Competitive Business in the Smart Era” there were two plenary sessions, two ASPA Round Table meetings, a tour of the JSP, and a few exhibition and networking sessions.

   
¡ã High-tech companies from Asian science parks network with one another to better their international bonds during a Biz-Matching session on April 25 at the JDC’s Elite Building. Photo by The Jeju Weekly

“I believe this meeting will be a valuable opportunity for experts in various fields to have an in-depth discussion about strategies and directions for science parks in the future to boost Asian economies,” wrote Jeju Free International City Development Center (JDC) Chairman and CEO Byon Jong Il on the conference’s Web site. “Also, it will be an ideal place for business people to build new network[s] and promote business exchange through business-related events.”

   
¡ã Dr. David Fuller during a roundtable session on April 24. Photo by The Jeju Weekly
Plenary Session 1, entitled “Global Knowledge Workers Will Determine Our Future,” held at 10 a.m. on April 24, given by Dr. David Fuller, president of the Technology Parks Australia and New Zealand as well as director of Strategic Projects at the University of Wollongong, focused on the need to train and retain high-level employees.

Fuller writes in a brief description of his presentation on the ASPA Leaders Meeting Web site that there is a “gap between aspiration and reality in many science park strategic plans in regard to the recruitment, development, and retention of key Global Knowledge Workers.” He continues that these types of workers are necessary to bring about original “models of creative innovation” and not just imitations of ones already in place.

During the session he marked that though currently all those sitting around the table were in direct competition with one another, due to the rapid spread of technology, that they will “be partners” in the future.

“Round table meetings like this are really important that we just get together and we talk so we get to know each other, we get to trust each other, and we get to share a little bit more. Maybe in a few years time we’ll actually have good conversations about what really is the problem in our parks,” Fuller said to a room of roughly a dozen experts from science parks throughout Asia.

The second plenary session, “Science Parks as Driving Force of Innovation Cities” was given by Dr. Martti Launonen, chief of the board and chief advisor for Hubconcepts Inc., on April 24 at 11 a.m. He looked at the Hub framework which was created through the examination of hundreds of similar types of incubation centers.

For the JSP, this event marks an important turning point in its development.

“Since [the] Jeju Science Park’s establishment, we actually focused on constructing, like building this Elite Building and Smart Building for this support system,” said event organizer Park Sun-Ja of the JDC Science Park Department. “It was hardware development [before] but from now on we are focusing on software development to help the tenant companies to grow as global enterprises.”

Park remarked that with over 75 companies under its wing, the JSP was doing “quite well” and that this conference, through its networking opportunities, “is the first step for us to actually help our tenants go to the global market.”

Established as a non-governmental organization in Japan in 1997, ASPA is attempting to grow the Asian economy through mutual cooperation and the sharing of proven industry and scientific practices as well as create an Asian business community at the local and regional levels.

   
¡ã Event organizer and JDC Science Park Department employee Park Sun-Ja believes that through hosting the 7th ASPA Leaders Meeting, the Jeju Science Park will discover better ways to aid its roughly 75 tenant companies. Photo by The Jeju Weekly
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