I have the (largely uninformed) impression that the aspirations of industrial parks (e.g. the Stanford Research Park) did not play out in reality—that is, dynamic and energetic interplay among industrial tenants and their neighboring universities.
Is this true? If so, why?
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Here in Cambridge, MA there's a whole massive software and biotech industry built up in buildings centered around MIT, many of them spin-offs and/or MIT grads. Not really "industrial parks", though, this is a real city, you just walk a block or three :)
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Right! This does seem to suggest that proximity does something powerful, though maybe not the shared infrastructure as supposed.
