A note in identifiying competing actors of technopolis: A case study of gedebage technopolis' core area formation

Bandung as one of the metropolitan in Indonesia shows the city growth and development in the last decade, the formation of Teknopolis Gedebage's core area was developed with the direction of being the driving force for the development of the Eastern Bandung area as well as an effort to reduce the very high dependence on the core Alun-alun City Center nowadays. On the other hand synergy between actors are a success key for technopolis development. The purpose of this research is to identify the competing actors in the formation of Gedebage Teknopolis' core area with targets identifying the networks of competing actors and identifying the existences of competing actors in the formation of Gedebage Technopolis' core area. Using social network analysis and content analysis, it is known that Summarecon as a business sector actor and Bappeda as a government actor are the competing actor in the formation of Gedebage Technopolis' core area, while ITB Innovation Park as the only intellectual actor has not become the competing actor yet. The absence of one or more basic actors as the competing actors can affect the synergy between actors which became an important note for the development of technopolis.