Transcript TRIPLE HELIX TWINS

Triple Helix Systems: The
Dialectic between Structural
Homology and Cultural
Specificity
Henry Etzkowitz
Stanford University, H-STAR Institute
Edinburgh University Business School,
Entrepreneurship Research Centre
Silicon Valley: Entrepot-dock
Marketer of the world’s technologies
 As well as Generator of new Technologies
 Is there room for more than one Silicon
Valley?
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Triple Helix Thesis
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University plays leading role in Knowledge-based
Society: shift from secondary to primary
institutional sphere
 Taking the role of the other e.g., university
forming firms; government as venture capitalist;
industry raising training to higher levels
 Shift from Laissez Faire and Statist to hybrid
model of intersecting Institutional Spheres
Balanced Triple Helix Model
State
Innovation at the
Intersection of
Institutional
Spheres
Industry
Academia
Civil Society: Base of Triple Helix
Georg Simmel:
Triadic Properties
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mediation
 Coalition organiser
 Why a triple helix?
Entrepreneurship:
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Is risk necessary?
 Collective and individual aspects
 Swedish and Brazilian models
The Key to Regional
Development:
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Building Upon Previous Strengths
 Extending into new areas
Circulation of Individuals in Triple Helix
UUU
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Professors of Practice (PoPs)
Turns traditional PoP model “on its head” from
teaching to research
PoP Types:
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Forward linear: faculty entrepreneurs moving ½ time to
Industry
Reverse linear: Industry entrepreneurs (PhDs) moving ½
time to University
Entrepreneurial role models for students and faculty
Develop large-scale projects, strengthen ties with
business, retain faculty entrepreneurs in university
Self-sustaining virtuous circle between University and Industry
Triple Helix conceptual axes
Institutional
Spheres
Integrative
Spaces
Hybrid institutions at
UIG interfaces:
• U-I interface: TTOs,
SPs, BIs, ILOs, JRCs,
excellence centres);
• U-G interface:
university contracts &
grants offices,
academics’ advisory
services to policymakers;
• I-G interface:
chambers of commerce,
professional associations,
sectoral firm
associations
• Knowledge, Consensus
and Innovation Spaces
• Dissemination of
innovation and best
practice from
local/regional to
national/international
level through networks
of universities, firms,
interface organisations
• Regional Innovation
Organizer (leadership)
Individual
Dynamics
• Circulation of
individuals within and
among TH spheres:
 dual roles of
academics in U-I/U-G;
 student internships
in firms, government,
training in firms for
dissertations
•TH education:
 Students: Novum
Trivium, TH PhD
 Academics: PoPs,
RoPs