Exploration and Exploitation of Good Practices by Technology Parks: Empirical Findings from Poland

Anna Wojcik-Karpacz, Jaroslaw Karpacz and Joanna Rudawska
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Anna Wojcik-Karpacz: Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland
Jaroslaw Karpacz: Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland
Joanna Rudawska: Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland

Managing Global Transitions, 2019, vol. 17, issue 4 (Winter), 317-334

Abstract: In the context of current economic climate in which enterprises revise business models as well as seek new opportunities and their significance for economic growth policies in a situation where the government recognises the need to support micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, analysing paths for learning good practices by the technology parks (TPS) is a valuable scientific venture. The aim of this article is to identify ways of learning good practices by technology parks operating in Poland. Data collection techniques engaged standardised and unstructured interviews conducted with 14 managers of the technology parks operating in Poland. In the research, the ambidexterity approach was adopted as one that fits into the current trend of strategic management based on paradoxes, assuming the simultaneity of exploratory and exploitative learning. Results showed that in those TPS which were analysed, maintaining attractive offers of support for current and potential beneficiaries is based on the systematic adaptation of already-recognised good practices and experimentation with new good practices. Research findings indicated ambidexterity as a condition which is not alternative, but necessary for the development of TPS.

Keywords: technology parks; best practices; exploration-exploitation; organisational learning; ambidextrous approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-6935.17.317-334

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