A key role in the development of innovation is played by technopark structures. Children's technology parks are a place where schoolchildren and students meet to familiarize themselves with innovative facilities and various industrial development technologies. By the principle of action, they are very close to a business incubator.
Technopark structure
What is she like? It:
- Center for Innovation and Technology.
- Training center.
- Consulting center.
- Information Center.
- Marketing Center.
- Industrial Development Zone.
Each of the elements of this structure is able to provide a specific set of services (specialized):
- lawyer consulting;
- search for information;
- retraining of specialists (advanced training);
- informing on industrial processes and production.
A similar device has a technopark for children. The center is its key unit.
As an independent element, an incubator is also present in it.
Distinctive features
- All firms and organizations that are part of the technopark make up a single “set”. This includes universities, law firms, industrial enterprises, after-sales services, etc.).
- Technoparks have a limited area.
- Most often located in ecologically clean areas.
- Innovation is extremely highly effective.
- Thanks to well-organized processes, they have a compact arrangement.
Children's Technopark “Quantorium”
This innovative technological complex is a brand. It has a network of technology parks located in different cities. The main goal of the Quantorium is to introduce a new model of continuing education for children. Teachers who work in this network go through all the stages of training. It is based on the joint streaming of information for the further exchange of knowledge and experience. The technopark methodology implies a complete immersion of the child in active processes for an average of two years. The first six months, the creators offer to instill in the child the features of an engineering culture. Children will be introduced to the CNC machine, welding machines, milling machines. At the same time, children will learn the basics of working on a 3D printer, learn to print and solder boards.
Quantorium offers development and training in two areas (innovative tracks):
- Competitive (design, big-data). Like many children's technology parks, Quantorium includes robotics, applied programming, geoinformatics, and information protection programs.
- Scientific research. Research and analysis of hypotheses, familiarization with the main research methods.
These include: applied computer science and astronautics, microbiology, designing promising vehicles.
All sites are equipped with modern equipment. It corresponds to the level of equipment of many leading industrial enterprises. All this allows you to constantly be in an innovative production environment and to study its most interesting aspects. The main acquaintance takes place in a playful way, which will allow children to more easily absorb information and not lose interest in it for a long time.
During the open days of the children's technology park, many who wish can get acquainted with its structure, the main directions and features of immersion in the proposed environment.
Foreign experience. USA
The USA takes the leading place in the creation of technology parks, where they have existed for more than a dozen years. The first technical innovation center was created at Stanford University, in the late 40s - early 50s. The Stanford Center was a place of business. And the scientific achievements of university scientists have become the basis for it. Today in the USA there are more than 160 technopark zones.
Thanks to a developed economy, countries such as the USA and Canada successfully support this area, allowing it to be brought to a high level.
European technology park model
The beginning of the appearance can be attributed to the 70s of the last century. One of the first to appear was a similar complex in Edinburgh and Cambridge.
European technology parks have a number of features:
- the presence of buildings that can accommodate dozens of organizations;
- complex management system (constituent apparatus);
- good financial support from the state.
In Europe, there are a considerable number of such structures, among them a variety of children's technology parks can be noted.
Russian experience
The first wave of development of Russian technology parks began in the early 90s. The first of the famous was created in the city of Tomsk.
As interest in the development and promotion of innovative business structures grows, various organizations appear, including industrial, scientific and industrial enterprises and small firms. Recently, the need to create such areas for children and their inclusion in similar units will increase.
Many cities today boast that they can develop children in conjunction with modern technology and science. Especially popular are such places in the capital. Therefore, if today we need a children's technopark, a sufficient number of such structural units are represented in Moscow.
Main goals
- Transformation of knowledge into technology.
- Turn knowledge into a commercial product.
- Redistribution of technology into industry.
- Organization of knowledge-based firms.
- Training competent entrepreneurs.
If we take into account children's technology parks, for them each of these items is significant. This will help to form a holistic type of thinking and a clear picture of the development of modern innovations in the field of industry and business.
conclusions
- Children's technopark is, first of all, a zone of free development of various high-tech industries, development and implementation of innovative products.
- Gives children an incentive to further develop entrepreneurship using scientific advances.
- Disclosure of their own talents and skills with their further development.
In Russia at the moment, the network of business incubators and zones of integration of science and industry is not so developed. However, there is interest in this area, as well as state support. After all, it is important to remember that the creation of children's technology parks allows you to integrate the younger generation into the research, industrial and technological environment. And most importantly, it will allow not only to create future qualified personnel, but also to raise the country's economy as a whole. And the demand is increasing every day, so the relevance of the development of "technological incubators" is extremely high.