In the past decade there have been a series of articles on the status of Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices. In responding to the most recent of these from Leydesdorff and Lawson Smith (2022), this article examines the respective status of the Triple and Quadruple Helix as the scientific basis of the Research and Innovation Strategies related to Smart Specialisation (RIS3) and as the foundation of the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP). In conducting this examination, the article draws attention to the strengths of the Triple Helix Model, the communication overlay, fourth selection environment and associated ecology of the meta-stabilisation it posits not as the Quadruple Helix, but N-Tuple helices of a higher-order policy model. That policy model which stands high in terms of the status it commands as a regime governing the transition to a next-order system. To a next-order system whose governing regime commands this heightened status as the model policy for nation-states to adopt in sustaining the economic growth of regions.

在过去的十年中，出现了一系列关于三螺旋、四螺旋和 N 元螺旋状态的文章。为了回应 Leydesdorff 和 Lawson Smith（2022 年）的最新研究，本文考察了三螺旋和四螺旋各自的地位，作为与智能专业化 (RIS 3) 相关的研究和创新战略的科学基础，以及作为创业发现过程（EDP）的基础). 在进行这项检查时，文章提请注意三重螺旋模型的优势、通信覆盖、第四选择环境和元稳定的相关生态学，它假定不是四重螺旋，而是更高的 N-元组螺旋订单策略模型。该政策模型作为一种管理向下一阶系统过渡的制度，其地位很高。下一个秩序系统，其治理制度要求这种更高的地位，作为民族国家在维持地区经济增长方面采用的模范政策。