Children's technology parks: typical structure

2024 Author: Harold Hamphrey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:06

Technopark structures play a key role in the development of innovation activity. Children's technoparks are a place where schoolchildren and students meet to get acquainted with innovative facilities and various technologies for industrial development. According to the principle of operation, they are very close to a business incubator.

Technopark structure

What is she like? This is:

1. Innovation and Technology Center.
2. Training Center.
3. Counseling Center.
4. Information Center.
5. Marketing Center.
6. Industrial Development Zone.

Each of the elements of this structure is capable of providing a certain set of services (specialized):

• legal advice;
• search for information;
• retraining of specialists (advanced training);
• information about industrial processes and productions.

The technopark for children also has a similar device. The center isits key unit.

As an independent element, it also has an incubator.

Distinguishing Features

1. All firms and organizations that are part of the technopark make up a single "set". This includes universities, law firms, industrial enterprises, service departments, etc.).
2. Technoparks have limited space.
3. Most often located in ecologically clean areas.
4. Innovation is highly efficient.
5. Due to well-organized processes have a compact layout.

Quantorium Children's Technopark

This innovation-technological complex is a brand. It has a network of technology parks located in different cities. The main goal of Quantorium is to introduce a new model of additional education for children. Teachers working in this network go through all stages of education. It is based on the streaming of joint information for the further exchange of knowledge and experience. The methodology of the technopark implies the complete immersion of the child in active processes for an average of two years. For the first six months, the creators offer to instill in the child the features of engineering culture. Children will be introduced to the CNC machine, welding machines, milling machines. At the same time, children will learn the basics of working on a 3D printer, learn how to print and solder boards.

Quantorium offers development and training in two areas(innovative tracks):

• Competitive (construction, big-data). Like many children's technology parks, Quantorium includes robotics, applied programming, geoinformatics and information security programs.
• Research. Research and analysis of hypotheses, familiarization with the main methods of research.

This includes: applied computer science and astronautics, microbiology, advanced vehicle design.

All sites are equipped with modern equipment. It corresponds to the level of equipment of many leading industrial enterprises. All this allows you to constantly be in an innovative production environment and study its most interesting aspects. The main introduction takes place in a playful way, which will allow children to more easily absorb information and not lose interest in it for a long time.

During the open days of the children's technopark, many people can get acquainted with its structure, main directions and features of immersion in the proposed environment.

Foreign experience. USA

The leading place in the creation of technoparks is occupied by the United States, where they have existed for more than a dozen years. The first innovation and technology center was established at Stanford University in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Stanford Center, was a place of entrepreneurial activity. And the scientific achievements of university scientists became the basis for it. Today, there are more than 160 industrial parks in the USA.

Thanks to the developed economy, such countries,like the USA and Canada, successfully support this direction, allowing it to be brought to a high level.

European technology park model

The beginning of the appearance can be attributed to the 70s of the last century. One of the first such complexes appeared in Edinburgh and Cambridge.

European technology parks have a number of features:

• presence of buildings capable of accommodating dozens of organizations;
• complex management system (constituent apparatus);
• good financial support from the state.

There are a considerable number of such structures in Europe, among them a variety of children's technology parks.

Russian experience

The first wave of development of Russian technology parks began in the early 90s. The first of the known ones was created in the city of Tomsk.

As interest in the development and promotion of innovative business structures grows, various organizations appear, including industrial, scientific and manufacturing enterprises and small firms. Recently, there will be a growing need to create such areas for children and include them in such units.

Many cities today can boast that they can develop children together with modern technologies and scientific achievements. Such places are especially popular in the capital. Therefore, if a children's technopark is needed today, a sufficient number of such structural units are represented in Moscow.

Main Tasks

• Transformation of knowledge into technology.
• Transforming knowledge into a commercial product.
• Redistributing technology to industry.
• Organization of knowledge-intensive firms.
• Training smart entrepreneurs.

If we take into account children's technoparks, for them each of these points is significant. This will help to form a holistic mindset and a clear picture of the development of modern innovations in industry and business.

Conclusions

1. Children's Technopark is primarily a zone of free development of various science-intensive industries, development and implementation of innovative products.
2. Encourages children to further develop entrepreneurship through science.
3. Disclosure of one's own talents and skills with their further development.

In Russia today, the network of business incubators and areas of integration of science and industry is not so developed. However, there is interest in this area, as well as state support. After all, it is important to remember that the creation of children's technology parks allows integrating the younger generation into the research and industrial-technological environment. And most importantly, it will allow not only to create future qualified personnel, but also to raise the country's economy as a whole. And demand is increasing every day, so the relevance of the development of "technological incubators" is extremely high.