The Cabral Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm was first presented by Regis Cabral as ten points in the early 1990s. It has influenced the management, establishment and evaluation of science parks, as well as business incubators, around the world. It is recommended that a property development should follow the Cabral Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm if it is to be considered a science park. By following the Paradigm, business incubators will gain in effectiveness.
According to the Paradigm, a science park must:
1. Have access to qualified research and development personnel in the areas of knowledge in which the park has its identity.
2. Be able to market its high valued products and services.
3. Have the capability to provide marketing expertise and managerial skills to firms, particularly Small and Medium Size Enterprises, lacking such a resource.
4. Be inserted in a society that allows for the protection of product or process secrets, via patents, security or any other means.
5. Be able to select or reject which firms enter the park. The firm's business plan is expected to be coherent with the science park identity.
6. Have a clear identity, quite often expressed symbolically, as the park's name choice, its logo or the management discourse.
7. Have a management with established or recognised expertise in financial matters, and which has presented long term economic development plans.
8. Have the backing of powerful, dynamic and stable economic actors, such as a funding agency, political institution or local university.
9. Include in its management an active person of vision, with power of decision and with high and visible profile, who is perceived by relevant actors in society as embodying the interface between academia and industry, long-term plans and good management.
10. Include a prominent percentage of consultancy firms, as well as technical service firms, including laboratories and quality control firms
Sources
· Cabral, R. and S. Dahab.(1998). "Science parks in developing countries: The case of BIORIO in Brazil", Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 16, pp. 726-739. Reprint of the original 1992 article.
· Cabral, R. (1998). "Refining the Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm", Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 16, pp. 813-818.
· Cabral, R. (2004). "The Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm Applied to the Case of Kista, Sweden", Int. J. Technology Management, Vol. 28, pp. 419-443.
