OREANDA-NEWS. May 31, 2010. Members of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) at the association's conference in Daejon, South Korea chose the Tehnopol technology park of the Estonian capital Tallinn as the venue of the IASP conference in 2012.

The second competitor for the status of host of the 2012 event was the JSC Technology Park of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Tehnopol said.

The 2012 conference is expected to bring together the leaders of 800 science parks worldwide.

With nearly 400 members in 70 countries, IASP is the worldwide network of science and technology parks.

Tehnopol is member of IASP since 2003.

Tehnopol is a science and business environment for knowledge based companies located next to the Tallinn University of Technology and the Estonian IT College. More than 150 businesses are active in Tehnopol at this point.