Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published online 2007-6
The Science Park and the Governance Challenge of the Movement of the High-Tech Urban Region towards Polycentricity: The Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park
In this paper I explore the governance challenges of science-park-based urban regions by exploring the case study of the Hsinchu science-based industrial park in Taiwan. In contrast to the economic emphasis of new regionalism on regional learning, I investigate the change and development of the high-tech Hsinchu region as it moves towards polycentricity, by exploring how the political processes of multiple and interconnected forces, from international to national and subnational levels, affect spatial-construction and regional governance issues. With reference to the analytical tool of the polycentric urban region (PUR), I highlight that international, national, and subnational forces caused the polycentric development, which in turn has led to governance contradictions and has politically affected the implementations of an ideal mode of the PUR.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AlbrechtsLHealeyPKunzmannKR, 2003, âStrategic spatial planning and regional governance in EuropeâAmerican Planning Association Journal69113â129
2.
AminAThriftN, 1995a, âHolding down the globalâ, in Globalisation, Institutions, and Regional Development in Europe Eds AminAThriftN (Oxford University Press, Oxford) pp 257â261
3.
AminAThriftN, 1995b, âGlobalisation, institutional âthicknessâ and the local economyâ, in Managing Cities: The New Urban Context Eds HealeyPCamperonSDavoudiSGrahamSMadani-PourA (John Wiley, Chichester, Sussex) pp 91â108
ChenC-FGrahamS, 1996, âStrategies for technological development in South Korea and Taiwan: The case of semiconductorsâResearch Policy25759â783
10.
ChenT-S, 1995Jingquan chengshi [The city of money power] (Juliu, Taipei)
11.
ChouTL, 1998, âCrisis and dysfunction of spatial development and management in TaiwanâEnvironment and Planning C: Government and Policy1669â84
12.
ChouTLKirkbyRJR, 1998, âTaiwan's electronics sector: Restructuring of form and spaceâCompetition and Change2331â358
13.
DavoudiS, 2002, âPolycentricity: Modeling or determining reality?âTown and Country Planning71(4) 114â117
14.
GereffiG, 1993, âGlobal sourcing and regional divisions of labour in Pacific Rimâ, in What is in a Rim? Critical Perspective on the Pacific Region Idea Ed. KirlikA (Westview Press, Boulder, CO) pp 51â68
15.
GereffiG, 1994, âThe organisation of buyer-driven global commodity chains: How U.S. retailers shape overseas production networksâ, in Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism Eds GereffiGKorzeniewiczM (Greenwood Press, London) pp 95â122
16.
GibbJM, 1985Science Parks and Innovation Centers: Their Economic and Social Impact (Elsevier, Amsterdam)
17.
GiordanoBRollerE, 2003, âA comparison of city region dynamics in the UK, Spain and Italy: More similarities than differences?âRegional Studies37911â927
18.
GoldsteinHALugerML, 1991Technology in the Garden: Research Parks and Regional Economic Development (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC)
19.
HallP, 2000Urban and Regional Planning (Routledge, London)
20.
HentonD, 2001, âLessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a global city-regionâ, in Global City-regions: Trends, Theory, Policy Ed. ScottAJ (Oxford University Press, Oxford) pp 391â400
21.
HsuJ-Y, 2000, âTowards a late-industrial district? The construction of learning networks in the Hsinchu-Taipei corridor, Taiwanâ, a paper presented at Conference on Economic Geography, National University of Singapore, 5â9 December, available from author, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
22.
HsuJ-Y, 2004, âThe evolving institutional embeddedness of a late-industrial district in TaiwanâTijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie95218â232
23.
HsuJ-YSaxenianA, 2000, âThe limits of guanxi capitalism: Transnational collaboration between Taiwan and the USâEnvironment and Planning A321991â2005
24.
Industrial Development Bureau, 2001Development and Management of Industrial Zones (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taipei (in Chinese)
25.
JonesM, 2001, âThe rise of the regional state in economic governance: âpartnerships for prosperityâ or new scales of state power?âEnvironment and Planning A331185â1211
26.
JonesMMacLeodG, 1999, âTowards a regional renaissance? Reconfiguring and rescaling England's economic governanceâTransactions of the Institution of British Geographers, New Series24295â313
27.
KeatingM, 2001, âRethinking the region: Culture, institutions and economic development in Catalonia and GaliciaâEuropean Urban and Regional Studies8217â234
28.
KeatingM, 2002, âGoverning cities and regions: Territorial restructuring in a global ageâ, in Global CityâRegions: Trends, Theory, Policy Ed. ScottAJ (Oxford University Press, Oxford) pp 371â390
29.
KeebleD, 1989, âHigh-technology industry and regional development in Britain: The case of the Cambridge phenomenonâEnvironment and Planning C: Government and Policy7153â172
30.
KloostermanRCMusterdS, 2001, âThe polycentric urban region: Towards a research agendaâUrban Studies38623â633
31.
LeeW-HYangW-T, 2000, âThe cradle of Taiwan high technology industrial development: Hsinchu Science Park (HSP)âTechnovation2055â59
32.
LeibovitzJ, 2003, âInstitutional barriers to associative city-region governance: The politics of institution-building and economic governance in âCanada's Technology TriangleâUrban Studies402613â2642
33.
LiaoC-C, 1997Taiwan defang peixi xingchen yu zhibian [The formation and transformation of local factions in Taiwan] (Yunchen wenhua, Taipei)
34.
LoveringJ, 1999, âTheory led by policy: The inadequacies of the ânew regionalismââInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research381953â1871
35.
MacLeodG, 2001, âNew regionalism reconsidered: Globalisation and the remaking of political economic spaceâInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research25804â829
36.
MasseyDQuintasPWieldD, 1992High-tech Fantasies: Science Parks in Society, Science and Space (Routledge, London)
37.
MeijersERomeinA, 2003, âRealizing potential: Building regional organizing capacity in polycentric urban regionsâEuropean Urban and Regional Studies10173â186
38.
MolotchH, 1976, âThe city as a urban regime: Toward a political economy of placeâAmerican Journal of Sociology82309â332
39.
MonckCSPPorterRBQuintasPStoreyDWynarczykP, 1988Science Parks and the Growth of High Technology Firms (Croom Helm, London)
40.
National Science Council, 2001Indicators of Science and Technology, ROCNational Science Council, Taipei (in Chinese)
41.
ParrJB, 2004, âThe polycentric urban region: A closer inspectionâRegional Studies38231â240
42.
RacoM, 1998, âAssessing âinstitutional thicknessâ in the local context: A comparison of Cardiff and SheffieldâEnvironment and Planning A30975â996
43.
SaxenianA, 1994Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
44.
SaxenianA, 1999Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA)
45.
SaxenianA, 2001, âTaiwan's Hsinchu region: Imitator and partner for Silicon Valleyâ, discussion paper, June, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford, CA
46.
SaxenianAHsuJ-Y, 2001, âThe Silicon ValleyâHsinchu connection: Technical communities and industrial upgradingâIndustrial and Corporate Change10893â920
47.
Science-based Industrial Park Statistics Quarterly selected years, Science-based Industrial Park Administration, Hsinchu
48.
ScottAJ, 1998Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition and Political Order (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
49.
StokerG, 1996, âRegime theory and urban politicsâ, in The City Reader Eds LeGatesRTStoutF (Routledge, London) pp 268â281
50.
StoneCSandersH (Eds), 1987The Politics of Urban Development (University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS)
51.
StorperM, 1997The Regional World, Territorial Development in a Global Economy (Guilford Press, New York)
52.
TangC-P, 2003, âDemocratizing urban politics and civic environmentalism in TaiwanâThe China Quarterly1621029â1051
53.
TangS-YTangC-P, 1999, âDemocratization and the environment: Entrepreneurial politics and interest representation in TaiwanâThe China Quarterly15866â82
54.
TsaiM-H, 1998Taiwan xiangzhen paixiyu zhengzhi bianqian [Township factions and political change in Taiwan] (Hongyeh, Taipei)
55.
Urban and Regional Development Statistics2001, Council for Economic Planning and Development (Executive Yuan, Taipei)
WardKJonasAEG, 2004, âCompetitive city-regionalism as a politics of space: A critical reinterpretation of the new regionalismâEnvironment and Planning A362119â2139
