In recent years, university-industry-government interactions have come to the forefront as a method of promoting economic growth in increasingly knowledge-based societies. This ground-breaking new volume evaluates the capacity of the triple helix model to represent the recent evolution of local and national systems of innovation. It analyses both the success of the triple helix as a descriptive and empirical model within internationally competitive technology regions as well as its potential as a prescriptive hypothesis for regional or national systems that wish to expand their innovation processes and industrial development. In addition, it examines the legal, economic, administrative, political and cognitive dimensions employed to configure and study, in practical terms, the series of phenomena contained in the triple helix category. This book will have widespread appeal amongst students and scholars of economics, sociology and business administration who specialise in entrepreneurship and innovation. Policy makers involved in innovation, industrial development and education as well as private firms and institutional agencies will also find the volume of interest.
Author(s): Riccardo Viale, Fondazione Rosselli
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 351
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction: anti-cyclic triple helix......Page 14
PART I How to capitalize knowledge......Page 42
1. Knowledge-driven capitalization of knowledge......Page 44
2. ‘Only connect’: academic–business research collaborations and the formation of ecologies of innovation......Page 87
3. Venture capitalism as a mechanism for knowledge governance......Page 111
4. How much should society fuel the greed of innovators? On the relations between appropriability, opportunities and rates of innovation......Page 134
5. Global bioregions: knowledge domains, capabilities and innovation system networks......Page 156
6. Proprietary versus public domain licensing of software and research products......Page 180
PART II Triple helix in the knowledge economy......Page 212
7. A company of their own: entrepreneurial scientists and the capitalization of knowledge......Page 214
8. Multi-level perspectives: a comparative analysis of national R&D policies......Page 231
9. The role of boundary organizations in maintaining separation in the triple helix......Page 256
10. The knowledge economy: Fritz Machlup’s construction of a synthetic concept......Page 274
11. Measuring the knowledge base of an economy in terms of triple-helix relations......Page 304
12. Knowledge networks: integration mechanisms and performance assessment......Page 325
Index......Page 348
