It may be a partner to a company,

They can take charge in the management of a company.

 

One of the important impacts of transition from industrial society to knowledge society is the transformation of classical entrepreneurship to innovative technology-based entrepreneurship led by the creative class. Technopark is cluster-based, socio-spatial systems that bring techno-entrepreneurs together. Technoparks are expected to create several types of externalities to the benefit of the firms they host in order that more innovations and qualified new jobs can be triggered. Under this assumption, governments provide important incentives, mainly in the type of tax deductions and infrastructure investments, for the technopark firms. However, if the technopark firms do not accrue sufficient benefits from mentioned potential externalities, then forgiven taxes and incurred investment costs would go down the drain. More importantly, a golden opportunity to significantly boost the performance of innovative techno-entrepreneurs would be lost. This brings the importance of evaluation studies that investigate if the potential desired benefits in technoparks are actually realized.