Although the science park (SP) concept is more than 50 years old, it has been continuously evolving and changing and new doubts, questions and needs have come to light. In order to understand and talk about the future of SPs, it seems necessary to understand their actual level of success. It is not a straightforward task as SPs are multi-owner organisations and definition of success will vary from one SP to another. Moreover, SPs have developed new roles and activities that are not easy to measure. Thereby, the aim of this paper is to fill in the gaps that exist in the literature on measuring the extent of success of contemporary SPs as individual organisations providing support for the benefit of its community. The paper proposes to measure SP success by means of a performance measurement system (PMS). It offers a theory grounded tool to assess the effectiveness of SP actions and activities including knowledge-based activity. Additionally, the paper provides some strong evidence that SPs show characteristics in common with knowledge intensive organisations (KIOS) and therefore play an important role in orchestrating innovation ecosystems.

尽管科学园 (SP) 的概念已有 50 多年的历史，但它一直在不断发展和变化，新的疑问、问题和需求不断涌现。为了了解和谈论 SP 的未来，似乎有必要了解他们的实际成功程度。这不是一项简单的任务，因为 SP 是多所有者组织，成功的定义因 SP 而异。此外，SP 已经开发了不容易衡量的新角色和活动。因此，本文的目的是填补文献中存在的关于衡量当代 SP 作为为社区利益提供支持的个体组织的成功程度的空白。本文提出通过绩效测量系统（PMS）来衡量 SP 的成功与否). 它提供了一个基于理论的工具来评估 SP 行动和活动的有效性，包括基于知识的活动。此外，本文还提供了一些强有力的证据，证明 SP 显示出与知识密集型组织 ( KIOS ) 的共同特征，因此在协调创新生态系统方面发挥着重要作用。