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From the Triple Helix Model of Innovations to the Quantitative Theory of Meaning Triple Helix Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Inga Ivanova
The paper dates back to the period when the author became acquainted with Loet Leydesdorff and is mainly devoted to the research that the author had the opportunity to conduct together with Loet. Major research topics include the development of the Triple Helix model and the dynamic model of inter-social communication, which appear to be closely interrelated. The full consequences of his work are yet
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Measuring Innovation and Collaboration System using Big Data: A Case Study about Ho Chi Minh City Triple Helix Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Han Woo Park
Academic, government, and industry researchers have attempted to build some theoretical and empirical ways to understanding how to innovate and interact in data- driven contexts in recent years. However, it does not appear to go above and beyond our expectations in terms of offering fresh views and resources to investigate this trend in terms of measurement. In this brief study, I show how Dimensions
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The Legacy of Loet Leydesdorff to the Triple Helix as a Theory of Innovation Triple Helix Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marcelo Amaral, Yuzhuo Cai, Anne Rocha Perazzo, Carina Rapetti, Josep Miquel Piqué
This paper is an in memoriam tribute to the distinguished scholar Loet Leydesdorff written by some of his academic collaborators, including the editors of the Triple Helix journal and representatives of the Triple Helix Association. The paper revisits Loet Leydesdorff’s seminal contributions and legacy in innovation studies, particularly his work on the Triple Helix model and the measurement of Triple
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Learning in Cities from Within and Across Cities: A Scoping Review Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Pradipta Banerjee, Sobah Abbas Petersen
Cities evolve rapidly while providing both opportunities and posing challenges. To cope with the emerging behaviours of cities, contextual innovations and development are essential. Driving innovations through the learning of contextual knowledge in cities is crucial. In this study, we explore relevant studies to identify the frameworks for human-centric innovations in cities that consider learning
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The Triple Helix Model and Working with Loet Leyesdorff Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Helen Lawton Smith
This article is a reflection on the enormous debt that I owe Loet for his kindness, generosity and intellectual mentorship. This is over a period of some twenty years. Loet also became part of the Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR) at Birkbeck, University of London. In one of our final articles together, Loet drew the different stands of his work together by exploring synergies in scholarship
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The Evolutionary Emergence of Quintuple Helix Coalitions: A Case Study of Place-Based Sustainability Transition Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Letizia Donati, Gianluca Stefani, Marco Bellandi
Complex societal, environmental, and economic challenges are affecting the post-covid-19 societies. They must increasingly rely on multi-stakeholders’ and multi-domain coalitions to find innovative solutions and achieve sustainability transitions in the near future. Triple helix model featuring interactions among academia, industry, and government successfully explained collaboration in technological
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University-industry Collaboration and Innovation in Low-tech Industries: the Case of Brazil Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Andrei Mikhailov, Daniel Pedro Puffal
Despite the importance of low-tech manufacturing sectors for national economies, previous studies on UIC benefits for the firms were conducted mostly in high-tech sectors, making the knowledge on the impact of UIC on innovation in low-tech sectors unexplored. The present research aims to identify combinations of UIC s that may lead the low-tech firms to high innovation performance. By using the csQCA
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Institutional Innovation in University-based Experimental Spaces: the Case of Oulu Game Lab Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Valeriia Pokidina, Juha Tuunainen, Tuija Mainela
This article explores preconditions and developmental dynamics of institutional innovation in higher education organizations as an outcome of a collaborative educational initiative – a university-based experimental space. Such collaborative learning configurations are often designed to stimulate local economic development after a downturn in regional industrial landscapes. The experimental space studied
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Development of Innovation Districts: A Performance Assessment Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Carina Rapetti, Josep M. Pique, Henry Etzkowitz, Francesc Miralles, Jorge Duran
Global challenges demand more competitiveness from cities, calling for quick adaptation to changes brought about by the current knowledge economy. Innovation Districts (ID) stand out as the most favourable ecosystems to create economic, urban, social and governance solutions proactively and at the speed demanded by this rapid renewal of knowledge. Effective assessment is important in these areas to
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Collaboration in Innovation Systems: A Study in India Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Carla Pacheco, Bino Paul
The increased complexity in the current business environment connected with the globalisation of economies and rapid technological developments makes firms depend on innovation and, in the process, develop dense networks of relationships, making collaboration an essential requisite for innovation. Thus, collaboration develops based on complex social networks from which innovation emerges. From this
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The Evolution of the Triple Helix Thematic: a Social Networks Analysis Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Marília Medeiros Schocair, Alexandre Aparecido Dias, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina, Marcelo Amaral
This study presents the evolution of the Triple Helix thematic using social network analysis. Our research covered 1,122 publications from the Web of Science database between 1995 and 2022. To analyze the data, we adopted the CiteSpace software, from which we interpreted the general properties of the co-citation network and the countries’ network. We also explored a set of nodes’ centralities to identify
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Facilitating Academic Engagement with Society: A Bonding Social Capital Approach to Self-Determination Triple Helix Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Eva Sormani, Sue Rossano-Rivero
This study examines how academic engagement with society can be facilitated by higher education institution (HEI) managers by studying academics’ needs and their managers’ support for autonomy, competence, and relatedness (i.e., the determinants of self-determination). Interviews were conducted with managers (n=6) and academics (n=16) affiliated with HEIs from the Hochschulallianz für den Mittelstand
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Unsatisfying Transfer of Climate Research to Urban Planning: The Regulatory Trap in the Triple Helix Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Stefan Emeis, Joachim Fallmann
Making urban areas more sustainable by transferring scientific results into the building, shaping, and governance of cities is a complicated process which involves – amongst other dimensions – science, local governance, and regulatory processes. There are non-linear interactions within each of these three dimensions which are influenced and enhanced by interactions between the three dimensions. After
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The “Endless Perspective” to University – Industry – Government Relations Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Pedro Costa Simões, António Carrizo Moreira, Carlos Mendes Dias
Since the emergence of the Triple Helix, expansions to Quadruple, Quintuple, N-tuple helices, and models decomposing higher-order helices into multiple interrelated triple helices, or two-layer triple helices have been proposed. Albeit presenting alternative conceptual frameworks these different Helix models seem unsuited to address internal boundaries to the institutional spheres of the university
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Transformation Pathways Towards Climate Resilient Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Halle (Saale) and Mannheim, Germany Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Olga Izdebska, Jörg Knieling, Nancy Kretschmann, Maischa-Katharina Woyna
This article explores the enabling factors and actors involved in the transformation pathways towards climate resilience of two German cities: Halle (Saale) and Mannheim. A specifically developed analytical framework served as basis for making the complex developments of the transformation paths of the two cities visible and comparable. The analysis has shown that despite strong similarities in terms
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Have Quadruple and Quintuple Helices Emerged? Metaphors, Project Titles, and Empirical Research Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Helen Lawton Smith, Loet Leydesdorff
In the original Triple Helix model (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff 1995), the three “helices” of Universities, Industry and Government and the (3-way) interactions among and between them were proposed as a basis for looking at how entrepreneurship comes into being. Since the original article, other “helix-based” models have been proposed. Some vary the triple and others propose higher numbers of helix –
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Triple Helix Twins: Operationalizing the Sustainability Agenda in the Northern Black Forest National Park in Germany Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Christiane Gebhardt, Mariza Almeida, Henry Etzkowitz
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives policy recommendations based on scientific research and agreed climate targets. We outline the concepts and requirements for implementing the sustainability goals. The Triple Helix Twin model is tested as method to analyze the governance of environmental policy formation and implementation. The model is applied to the controversial case of
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The Role of Technology Commercialisation in the Operationalisation of Innovation and Industrial Policies in South Africa Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Nontombi Pearl Marule
Innovation has been and continues to be recognised as central to promoting and supporting sustainable economic development; as such, South Africa has set the goal of becoming a knowledge economy. This is an economy that succeeds in producing knowledge and transforming itself into a technology-based from a resource-based economy that will stimulate growth and development of the country, while creating
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Triple, Quadruple and N-Tuple Helices: The RIS3 and EDP of a Higher-Order Policy Model Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Mark Deakin
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
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The Tribology of the Helixes: Relations between Triple, Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Models Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Marcelo Amaral,Yuzhuo Cai
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Neo-Triple Helix Model of Innovation Ecosystems: Integrating Triple, Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Models Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Yuzhuo Cai
This article proposes the neo-Triple Helix model of innovation ecosystems by integrating the Triple, Quadruple and Quintuple Helix models, inspired by Lewontin’s gene, organism and environment Triple Helix metaphor. The model considers innovation ecosystems evolved through interactions between 1) innovation dynamics (or innovation genes), 2) social structures and 3) the natural environment. The systems
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Towards an Emerging Unified Theory of Helix Architectures (EUTOHA): Focus on the Quintuple Innovation Helix Framework as the Integrative Device Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Elias G. Carayannis, David F.J. Campbell
Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Innovation Systems aim to optimize the design and operation of modern, democratic societies and economies in a smart, sustainable, inclusive, resilient and efficacious manner via the cyber-physical ecosystems that align with Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 precepts. In this context, the Quintuple Innovation Helix Framework (which is part of the Quadruple/Quintuple Innovation
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From Modeling the Interactions among Institutions to Modeling the Evolution of an Ecosystem: A Reflection on the Triple Helix Model and Beyond Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Lan Xue, Yuchen Gao
By decomposing and analyzing the quadruple helix model and N-tuple helices into interacting triple helices, Leydesdorff and Lawton Smith’s (2022) research promises to open further the black box inside the higher-order helices, and provides a theoretical basis and guidance for the subsequent governance on the innovation in the higher-order helices model. In this commentary, we have argued that a framework
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Triple, Quadruple, and Higher-Order Helices: Historical Phenomena and (Neo-)Evolutionary Models Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Loet Leydesdorff, Helen Lawton Smith
Carayannis and Campbell (2009; 2010) have argued for using quadruple and quintuple helices as models encompassing and generalizing triple-helix dynamics. In the meantime, quadruple and quintuple helices have been adopted by the European Committee for the Regions and the European Commission as metaphors for further strategy development such as in EU-programs in Smart Specialization, Plan S, Open Innovation
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Measuring Helix Interactions in the Context of Economic Development and Public Policies: From Triple to Quadruple and N-Tuple Helix vs. N-Tuple and Quadruple Helix to Triads Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Han Woo Park, Pieter Stek
Quadruple collaboration has risen rapidly in place of the traditional triple helix model of institutional collaboration between universities, governments, and companies. Loet Leydesdorff and Helen Lawton Smith (2022) approach this challenge by aiming to resolve the issue of evaluating and analyzing various quadruple and n-tuple helices. This article seeks to recognize the increasing complexity of new
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The Role of Proximity in Technology Dynamics of High-Tech Industries: the Case of Biotechnology and Aviation Industries Triple Helix Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Małgorzata Runiewicz-Wardyn
Confronted with new global competitive environment, rising R&D costs, growing integration of different technologies, shorter life cycles, and increased pace of innovation, high-tech companies increasingly collaborate with external partners. Innovation networks became unconditional driver of technological dynamics and growth of high-tech industries. The article aims to explore the role of proximity
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The Role of Proximity in Developing an Inter-Regional Innovation System Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Mandy Lalrindiki, Bill O’Gorman
While most innovation collaboration projects consist of partners who are located at close proximity, recent literature has explored the development of innovation collaboration in the context of non-spatial proximity. Using a longitudinal mixed methods design, this article explores the inter-regional collaboration of triple helix partners from four non-contiguous European regions (Bucharest-Ilfov, Romania;
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Evaluating University-Business Collaboration at Science Parks: a Business Perspective Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Claudia Olvera, Josep M. Piqué, Ulises Cortés, Mario Nemirovsky
The evaluation of the companies’ performance at University Science Parks (SPs) becomes essential in identifying the needs of the companies and the feasibility of the University-Business Collaboration (UBC). The companies’ real needs are also of interest for universities and SPs, since they face the challenge of designing strategies that best help them to transfer knowledge more effectively. This research
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The Triple Helix Model and the Future of Innovation: A Reflection on the Triple Helix Research Agenda Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Yuzhuo Cai,Marcelo Amaral
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The Role of Government Measures in University-Industry Collaboration for Economic Growth: A Comparative Study across Levels of Economic Development Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Ewa Kopczynska, Joao J. Ferreira
Nowadays, countries across the world aspire to increase their innovation for the common good. In this scope, and among others, the Triple Helix thesis emphasizes the role of collaboration between stakeholders from academia, industry and government to bring about effective innovation. Despite efforts to encourage university-industry (U-I) collaboration, bridging U-I barriers remains among the relevant
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Does Productive Mean Active? The Behavior of Occasional and Serial Academic Inventors in Patenting Processes Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Danielle Lewensohn, Ebba Sjögren, Carl Johan Sundberg
Previous literature has attributed differences in individuals’ inventive productivity to a range of environmental, organizational and individual traits. However, the behavior of individuals with different inventive productivity has not been empirically explored in detail. Based on interviews with twenty Swedish academic inventors of diverse patenting experience, this paper analyses how serial and occasional
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Eight Years of Realizations and Challenges – The Dynamic Process of an Academic Journal Management Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Marcelo Amaral,Yuzhuo Cai
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What Constitutes Failure? The Influence of Public Interests in Securing Accountability in Triple Helix Initiatives Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Anna Thomasson, Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson, Christin Scheller
The focus of this article is to examine a specific case of a failing regional innovation system (RIS). Our study focuses on a specific project that was conducted in a triple helix constellation where public actors occupy the centre of the triple helix constellation. By examining and interpreting this single case, we aim to illustrate the consequences that result from uncertainty over who the triple
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Kairos in Innovation Policy: Theoretical Background and Practical Implications for the Triple Helix Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Michael Rothgang, Bernhard Lageman
A kairos constellation designates a temporarily existing opportunity for a group of actors to take advantage of a coincidence of favourable circumstances in order to realise a shared target. Starting from the observation that kairos constellations are ubiquitous in human individual and social life, the research question of this paper is how the Triple Helix and the wider innovation policy research
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Networks of Innovation: Measuring Structure and Dynamics between and within Helices, Regions and Spatial Levels. Empirical Evidence from the Baltic Sea Region Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Seija Virkkala, Åge Mariussen
In the quantitative, macro-oriented triple helix literature, synergy is measured indirectly, through patent data, firm data and other secondary statistical sources. These macro-level quantitative studies do not open up for understanding how different processes of cooperation create different outcomes, in terms of synergies. This article presents an alternative method of measuring quantitatively how
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The Role of Performance Measurement in University–Industry Collaboration Projects as a Part of Managing Triple Helix Operations Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Tero Rantala, Juhani Ukko, Minna Saunila
As part of contemporary Triple Helix operations, universities are more and more frequently asked to collaborate with other social actors to generate knowledge that supports their innovation and development activities and to foster economic growth. In addition to research and education tasks, universities are developing formal and informal collaborations with industrial organizations to fulfill the
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Can we still Speak about the Innovation Process per se?: Challenges for Managers Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Andrzej H Jasinski
In this article, we are analyzing an influence of various factors on the contents, structure and organization of the contemporary innovation process. The main hypothesis assumes that the contemporary innovation more and more often comes as a result of a quite loose set of dispersed processes and not of a put-in-order, several-phase innovation process. The article starts with a literature survey followed
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Innovation-Centric Cluster Business Model: Findings from a Design-Oriented Literature Review Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Evgeniya Lupova-Henry, Sam Blili, Cinzia Dal Zotto
How should a cluster be designed to foster the innovativeness of its members? In this article, we view self-aware and organised clusters as “meta-organisations” which can deliberately shape their internal structures through design-based interventions. To formulate interventions for cluster design fostering its innovativeness, we adopt a methodology combining a systematic literature review and a design-oriented
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Development of Arts Entrepreneurship Education: Excavating and Unravelling the Knowledge Basis Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Oluwayemisi Adebola Abisuga, Mammo Muchie
Scholars have highlighted the need for a clearer knowledge, conceptualization and theorizing on the practicality of integrating arts entrepreneurship education in university programs. The objective of this study is to identify the themes in the Arts Entrepreneurship (AE) and to develop these themes to a conceptual model that describes the Arts Entrepreneurship Education (AEE). This research article
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Global Value Chain Upgrading and Business-academia Collaborations: Case Studies of Successful Innovators Triple Helix Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Agnė Paliokaitė, Elžbieta Jašinskaitė, Marek Tiits
The article links upgrading in the global value chains with the triple helix concept by focusing on business-academia collaborations that played a part in firms’ capacity to upgrade. Both are crucial for Central Eastern European countries, which face the need to restructure their economies and escape the “middle income trap”. The article asks the following research question: how can public policy encourage
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Bridging the Knowledge and Business Ecosystems: Resources and Mechanisms for Regional Entrepreneurial Development Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Zachary T. Oliver, Michael Hogan, Ekaterina Albats
This article explores a phenomenon of a regional startup ecosystem—its key elements, resources and mechanisms needed for the ecosystem development and growth. Despite famous success stories of such regional ecosystems as Silicon Valley, the literature suggests multiple problems to emerge on the ecosystem development pathway. One of the common issues is a relative disconnect between the knowledge subsystem
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The Role of Universities in Shaping the Evolution of Silicon Valley’s Ecosystem of Innovation Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Josep M. Piqué, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Henry Etzkowitz
Universities play a unique role in ecosystems of innovation. They interact with the other agents of the Triple Helix model, developing their functions in relation to each other and together with industry and government. Grounded in key conceptual frameworks—Triple Helix, Regional Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurial University—we analyze how the leading universities in Silicon Valley (UC Berkeley
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Theorizing the Triple Helix model: Past, present, and future Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-06-27 Yuzhuo Cai, Henry Etzkowitz
The Triple Helix of university-industry-government interactions, highlighting the enhanced role of the university in the transition from industrial to knowledge-based society, has become widespread in innovation and entrepreneurship studies. We analyze classic literature and recent research, shedding light on the theoretical development of a model that has engendered controversy for being simultaneously
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Corporate-startup Collaboration: Its Diffusion to and within the Firm Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Annika Steiber
In an age of digital transformation, startup collaboration as an avenue for corporate innovation has increased in importance. However, the diffusion of corporate-startup collaboration models, to and within firms, is not well researched. The purpose of this article is to view a corporate-startup collaboration model as an organizational innovation and thereby, by using an established framework for the
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Performance Measures to Assess the Success of Contemporary Science Parks Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Justyna Dabrowskade, Adriana Ferreira de Faria
Although the science park (SP) concept is more than 50 years old, it has been continuously evolving and changing and new doubts, questions and needs have come to light. In order to understand and talk about the future of SPs, it seems necessary to understand their actual level of success. It is not a straightforward task as SPs are multi-owner organisations and definition of success will vary from
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Corporate-startup Co-creation for Increased Innovation and Societal Change Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Annika Steiber, Sverker Alänge
The emphasis on corporate-startup collaboration has reached a new level in the context of digital transformation of most industries. Co-creation, as one non-equity based model for corporate-startup collaboration is increasingly getting attention among corporations and startups, but also among local governments. However, even if companies, governments, and startups invest in this approach for innovation
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The Uses and Disuses of Doctoral Degrees in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: The Case of Hungary Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Annamária Inzelt, László Csonka
This study offers a contribution to our existing knowledge of the impacts of Hungarian social science and humanities PhDs on the graduates themselves and on their own personal and social environments. We employ new empirical findings—gained from an e-survey and from structured interviews—in an attempt to understand and explain impacts and lacks. Empirical analysis allowed us to identify certain differences
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The Impact of Participatory Governance on Regional Development Pathways: Citizen-driven Smart, Green and Inclusive Urbanism in the Brainport Metropolitan Region Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Christiane Gebhardt
Urban innovation policies reintroduce the role of social entrepreneurs and civil society into innovation studies with regard to the governance of regional innovation and the emergence of new innovation pathways. The research approach integrates the concepts of urban and regional transformation, participatory governance and works with an actor-centered approach that employs the enactment of innovation
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Science Parks and the Attraction of Talents: Activities and Challenges Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Eduardo Cadorin, Magnus Klofsten, Alberto Albahari, Henry Etzkowitz
This paper explores activities undertaken by Science Parks to attract talent for their tenants. Despite the importance of accessing talent, there are very few studies focusing on this research area. The data in this investigation comes from seven cases studies on talent attraction activities carried out by three Science Parks in Sweden. We show that the parks conduct many different activities to attract
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The Triple Helix Frame Contributes to Strategic Innovation in Nearshore Wind Park Ecosystems Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Tove Brink
This research shows how port authorities in a triple helix context can contribute to strategic innovation with reduction of Levelized Cost of Energy in nearshore wind park ecosystems. The empirical qualitative case study was conducted from September 2017 to June 2018 with a port and a nearshore wind park owner and a logistic business actor operating on land and one operating at sea. Individual interviews
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Study Program Innovation in the Triple Helix Context: The Case of Cooperative Study Programs at a German University of Applied Sciences Triple Helix Pub Date : 2020-03-05 Benjamin Schiller, Liudvika Leišytė
The purpose of this article is to understand how Triple Helix linkages foster study program innovation at the micro-level and how the entrepreneurial university shapes support structures and processes to foster this innovation at the meso-level. We draw on the case of cooperative study programs from a German university of applied sciences. We selected business administration and nursing as two different
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Researcher identities and practices inside centres of excellence Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-12-20 Siri Brorstad Borlaug, Magnus Gulbrandsen
Many science support mechanisms aim to combine excellent research with explicit expectations of societal impact. Temporary research centres such as ‘Centres of Excellence’ and ‘Centre of Excellence in Research and Innovation’ have become widespread. These centres are expected to produce research that creates future economic benefits and contributes to solving society’s challenges, but little is known
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Academic institutional entrepreneurs in Germany: navigating and shaping multilevel research commercialization governance Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-12-18 Liudvika Leišytė, Lisa Sigl
In this article, we aim to explore the agency of scientific entrepreneurs and research managers in shaping their Triple Helix contexts. Drawing on institutional documents and in-depth interviews with research managers and scientists in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the study shows that trust in scientific entrepreneurs from research managers, their scientific standing and leadership,
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Topical collection of the Triple Helix Journal: agents of change in university-industry-government-society relationships Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Liudvika Leišytė, Maximilian Fochler
© L p i University-industry-government collaborations and relationships—as theorized by the Triple Helix model (Etzkowitz, and Zhou, 2018) among others—have been analyzed in a plethora of innovation, higher education and STS studies. Most of these studies have focused on national, regional, and institutional levels, examining the structures of interaction as well as the formal and informal linkages
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The intermediary as an institutional entrepreneur: institutional change and stability in triple-helix cooperation Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Florian Poppen, Reinhold Decker
This paper aims to illustrate how the triple-helix concept can be implemented on a city level by establishing an intermediary among the scientific, economic, and public administration spheres and civil society. By using the example of Bielefeld 2000plus, an initiative founded for this particular purpose, this paper shows that in today’s knowledge society, certain inter-organizational conflicts and
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Triple Helix and the evolution of ecosystems of innovation: the case of Silicon Valley Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Josep M. Pique, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Henry Etzkowitz
Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem has evolved in the last decade. In this study we aim to understand how and why Silicon Valley evolves by identifying changes on the role played by the Triple Helix Agents. We also aim at identifying if changes in one of the agents trigger evolution of the others. Taking the startup as the unit of analysis and applying a multiple case-study approach, the results
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'Innovation policy is a team sport' - insights from non-governmental intermediaries in Canadian innovation ecosystem Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-11-27 Merli Tamtik
Policy-makers and practitioners alike have increasingly embraced the innovation ecosystem approach to support the flow of knowledge within the Triple Helix framework. This approach focuses on the collaborative and interdependent nature of innovation, which is based on social aspects of knowledge transfer supporting relationships, partnerships, and connections. The important role of intermediary stakeholders
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Three operational models for ambidexterity in large corporations Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-08-22 Sverker Alänge, Annika Steiber
This paper examines new approaches that large firms are using to become more ambidextrous—more able to “explore” and innovate for the future while they “exploit” current lines of business. It presents and compares three different models for boosting innovation by partnering with external actors: GE Appliances’ FirstBuild unit for new-product development, the Open Innovation function at Electrolux,
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The public sector’s role in Norwegian network cooperation: triple helix or laissez-faire? Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-06-19 Øyvind Heimset Larsen, Jon Gunnar Nesse, Synnøve Rubach
The concept of triple helix (TH) cooperation was introduced about two decades ago, as a method of enhancing innovation and value creation. A good networking practice for knowledge-based development should identify the correct balance between business, research and government. The TH model for cooperation embodies an argument for public initiatives in business networks. The purpose of this paper is
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Building builders: entrepreneurship education from an ecosystem perspective at MIT Triple Helix Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Artur Tavares Vilas Boas Ribeiro, Juliana Natsumi Uechi, Guilherme Ary Plonski
This study is about new possibilities on entrepreneurship education. With the emergence of the entrepreneurial universities, academics and university managers started to pay more attention to fostering entrepreneurship among students. However, entrepreneurship education research became more oriented towards teacher activities and neglected the entrepreneurship ecosystem around the university and its