The effectiveness of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) as instruments of innovation policy has generated thriving … and 25 STPs from the 2009 Community Innovation Survey for Spain and a survey of STP managers respectively, we find that …

firms of the use of knowledge providers, including universities, technology institutes or knowledge intensive business firms …. We use a criteria to classify the literature according to the research question addressed: (i) Which firms use knowledge … providers?; (ii) Do firms using them achieve better results?; (iii) Which firms benefit more from using knowledge providers …