The present study consists of an impact assessment of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) on the number of jobs in knowledge-intensive occupations in municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). The analysis covers the period 2013—2020, observing information on education (number of doctors, masters, specialists, graduates of higher education and technical courses), number of service companies, number of industries and appropriate income. For this, spatial econometrics techniques were used as a method, more specifically the SAR (Spatial Autoregressive), SEM (Spatial Error Model) and SDM (Spatial Durbin Model) models. The results obtained show a positive contribution of STPs to the number of jobs in knowledge-intensive occupations in the municipalities that host them, with significant spillover effects in the neighborhoods.
Gasparote et al. (Fri,) studied this question.