May 23- 26,  2010

GLOBAL GREEN GROWTH

International Association of Science Parks

IASP XXVII DAEDEOK

Daejeon, Korea

The 27th World Conference of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) will be held in the Daedeok research cluster in Daejeon, Korea—one of Asia’s leading centers for innovation. IASP will focus on the multidimensional problem of responding to climate change and reimagining the economies, the communities and the manufacturing infrastructures of the world in the face of this unprecedented challenge.

Under the rubric of “Global Green Growth” IASP XXVII Daedeok will bring together the full range of IASP members, complemented by a select group of experts in green technologies conversant on climate change to engage in a broad discussion of how science parks can serve as the vanguard in proposing viable solutions to climate change.

IASP 27 will take up the mandate of Copenhagen 15 (the United Nations Climate Change Conference) for a drastic reduction in emissions and the establishment of a broad range of sustainable development initiatives. Science parks contain within them the entire range of technologies (bio, nano, nuclear, and IT) required to fully implement a new paradigm of green growth. The question to be addressed at IASP XXVII Daedeok is how those capabilities can be creatively employed in an effective manner.

IASP has a special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, placing it in the position to serve as the sounding broad on a global scale for the effective response to Copenhagen 15. The innovation that forms a core value of IASP will be much demanded in our efforts to respond rapidly to Copenhagen’s prescriptions for change.

Science parks also can serve as model ecocities that can quickly employ the technologies they possess to transform their own environments into models both for the countries in which they are located and the world as a whole. For this reason, green growth offers a metaphor that will take full advantage of the IASP special status to play a transformative role. In a word, IASP XXVI Daedeok will serves as an opportunity to sound out how the rubber will meet the road in implementing Copenhagen and how science parks can effectively cooperate in this critical enterprise.

IASP is the worldwide network of Science and Technology Parks that connects the administrators and researchers within research clusters across the globe together so that they can operate more effectively in a global economy.

A Science Park is an organization managed by professionals with specialized knowledge in technology and science 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.

Director Pastreich serves on the steering committee for IASP 2010.