International Association of Science Parks

17/06/2012 - 20/06/2012

UKSPA at the IASP World Conference in Tallinn June 2012

As part of our responsibility to promote the work of our UK Members internationally, this year we have agreed to contribute to the International Association of Science Parks meeting at Tallinn, in Estonia on 17th - 20th June 2012, and we hope that you are able to join us there.

UKSPA Members will be managing a session on efficient science park management on the afternoon of Sunday 17^th June for a couple of hours prior to the welcome meeting. Colleagues from other science parks from around the world will be invited to join us to enrich that debate.

Our agreement with IASP is that we will promote the IASP event to UKSPA Members, and also more widely to our stakeholders and partners. In return, we have negotiated a significant 20-30% discount off the delegate rate assuming we are able to take bookings for over 20 UK participants.

If you intend going to the IASP meeting please do not book through the IASP website at this stage. You must make your initial reservation through the attached UKSPA reservation form, otherwise you will not be eligible for the discount.

Prices

The 2012 Conference registration fees include the UKSPA session, and also all IASP conference sessions and handouts, lunches and coffee breaks during the conference days, Welcome Reception, Informal Dinner and Gala Dinner.

All prices are quoted in Euros and include VAT.	Early Bird (till April 2012)	Full rates
IASP Full Member	440 EUR	570 EUR
IASP Affiliate Member	470 EUR	590 EUR
IASP Associate Member	510 EUR	640 EUR
Non IASP Member	560 EUR	700 EUR
Accompanying Person (guest, spouse)	80 EUR	80 EUR
Delegates with Presentation	400 EUR	400 EUR

Please remember these prices will be discounted by up to 30% when you book through UKSPA.

If you know of any colleagues, stakeholders or partners from the UK who you think would like to attend this conference, please feel free to extend the offer of the UKSPA discount.

Registration

To take advantage of the discounts please download and return the Registration Form to UKSPA.

Conference Theme

Starting from their roots decades ago, Science and Technology Parks have grown into globally recognized tools for effective offering of various innovation support services to their main clients – knowledge-based companies.

This has been accompanied by permanent modification and enrichment of the role of STPs as bridging institutions between universities and other R&D bodies, business entities, governmental offices, and wider public community.

In 2002, IASP formulated a definition of STP that encompasses the main common denominators and features that these projects share throughout the world:

“A Science Park is an organisation managed by specialised professionals, whose main aim is to increase the wealth of its community by promoting the culture of innovation and the competitiveness of its associated businesses and knowledge-based institutions.

To enable these goals to be met, a Science Park

· stimulates and manages the flow of knowledge and technology amongst universities, R&D institutions, companies and markets;

· facilitates the creation and growth of innovation-based companies through incubation and spin-off processes;

· provides other value-added services together with high quality space and facilities.”

In 2012, IASP and Tallinn TEHNOPOL propose to consider various aspects of the recent professional STP developments and to highlight whether and in which direction this definition should be modified to keep path with the evolution of the STP concept.

On this basis, the overall theme for the 2012 IASP World Conference has been set as “Science and Technology Parks: Serving the Companies and the Innovation Community”

The programme for the two and a half day conference will be divided into a number of plenary and parallel sessions or workshops on specific topics. In addition, special plenary meetings – Knowledge Camps - will be held to review and analyse the outcome of the parallel sessions/workshops.