Title: Future of Science and Technology Parks in the Post-Corona Era

COVID-19 has changed the way of life and work of everyone globally and become a long-term impact, which suggests finding a turning point from the crisis and pursuing a sustainable social and economic system inevitably and of crucial importance. This presentation aims to propose industrial development trends and feasible responses for science parks in Post-Corona era.

  In the first half of 2020, implementation of national or partial city lockouts or curfews in response to major epidemic outbreaks, which lead to global economic recession. The pandemic lead to new trend for industrial innovation under COVID-19. Subjects related to remote work, production automation, COVID-19 detection, pandemic prevention, national security, and digital technology are flourishing. To recognize these changes and redefine risks of global supply chain will assist countries to identify the ideal state of global economy and social system.

  In addition, pandemic accelerates application of innovative technologies, particularly 5G, robots, AI and cyber security. 5G offers stable and fast speed transmission, which accelerates digital transformation. Robots are widely used in medical care, transportation, cleaning and disinfection, and also a voice assistant in order to reduce contacts. AI is normally applied on virus analysis, patient screening, temperature detection, and AI interview census, which greatly benefit pandemic prevention during the post-corona era. Furthermore, wide use of online activities shows the importance of cyber security, which brings up urgent issues of remote access to resources, anti-phishing tools, and "Zero Trust" Network.

  On 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, countries reached a consensus to secure global net-zero carbon emission by mid-century and keep 1.5 degrees within reach. Net-zero carbon emission propels multinational companies to implement supply-chain decarbonization, affecting industrial development trend in next few decades. It is urgent and important for countries and industries to cope with global net zero trend. Nevertheless, it is difficult to reach the goal of carbon reduction with existing technologies in due time. As science parks act as driving forces for high-tech industry development, it is our responsibility to play crucial roles to find feasible solutions via innovative digital technologies to deal with this goal.