Prospects and Challenges of Science Parks in the Digital Era
Significant amounts of research have indicated that the digitalization is a growing trend with a powerful influence in shaping the development of techno-economic regime as well as the society as a whole. The digital economy encompasses a wide range of technological applications used in daily lives, including radio frequency identification tags, sensors, actuators, and smart devices connected to all the internet-based tracks. Likewise, precision machinery and biomedical technology are also crucial to the society nowadays, implemented in health care big data, integrated medical information systems, and enhanced human-machine interaction experiences in manufacturing. The digital economy uses the Internet to form a huge network of smart objects. While the conventional Internet connects people and facilitates exchange of information, the digital economy, such as the 4th industry revolution, integrates machines and objects with embedded sensors, and allows them to predict the logical people/machine behaviors and communicate autonomously over the Internet. For example, many Internet-of-Thing services have been developed and the global market for such services is growing rapidly. According to the International Data Corporation, the global IoT market is on track to hit $7.1 trillion in 2020.
New types of innovative services and products based on digitalization applications facilitate the transformational needs for industrial development, regulation and policy, and social awareness. The emerging economies, especially those with the higher population in the Asia, such as India, Vietnam and Thailand, own potential markets wide-open to the digital applications. The special context underlined by these Asian economies’ culture and environment is likely to generate very different applications and business models (such as adversary innovation and inclusive growth model) from those in the developed countries. Innovative applications and business models inspired by the power of digitalization mingling with the regional characteristics are gradually implemented in these markets. It is interesting, also crucial, for the academics and practitioners to observe, explore, and examine the phenomena in order to fully utilize the opportunities provided by the emerging digital economy. This also presents a great opportunity as well as an urgent need for the science park, especially those in the Asian context, to adapt and transform their prior successful operational models so as to well respond to the forthcoming digitalization era.
Objective
The influence of the digitalization has gradually led to the disruption of the traditional practices and the formation of innovative business models. Many successful business models are created based on or facilitated by the internet-based applications. These successful cases are the legitimate benchmarks for others to explore, learn, and may eventually stimulate even more innovative models. Furthermore, the innovation system derived from the digitalization economy is likely to vary under different contexts such as religion, geographic region, culture, and etc. How the Asian latecomers adopted, adapted, and applied in the digital economy and what are the embedded opportunity and challenge are worth further exploring.
The theme of this conference aims to explore the prospects and challenges in the digital era brought by or facilitate through the internet-based applications, especially in the Asian context. The issues to explore include, but are not limited to, the following:
Selection of Abstracts
Important dates
Deadline for abstract submission: July 15, 2019
Notification of accepted abstract: August 15, 2019
Deadline for completed manuscript submission: September 30, 2019