A Triple Helix Model in the Global Innovation Agenda

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A Triple Helix Model in the Global Innovation
Agenda

• Henry EtzkowitzTriple Helix Research
  GroupNewcastle University Business School

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Triple Helix Thesis

• University plays leading role in Knowledge-based
  Society shift from secondary to primary
  institutional sphere
• From laissez faire and statist innovation models
  in different countries to hybrid model of
  relatively equal intersecting Institutional
  Spheres
• Institutional Spheres taking the role of the
  other in addition to traditional roles e.g.,
  university forming firms government as venture
  capitalist industry raising training to higher
  levels

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Hybrid Triple Helix Model
Innovation at the Intersection of Institutional
Spheres
State
Industry
Academia
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Origin of the Triple Helix Concept Transition
from Industrial to Knowledge Age

• Keynesian Response to 1930s Depression Using
  Existing Productive Capacities
• Forestalling 00s Depression
• Triple Helix Strategy to Create New Productive
  Capacities

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From Repository to Generator of Innovation

• Origins of Science Park Unintended Consequence
  of University Led Firm Formation
• Attractor of Government Labs and Firm RD Units
• Renewal of Science Park Site of Entrepreneurial
  Universities and Incubator Facilities

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The Entrepreneurial University

• The Second Academic Revolution entrepreneurship,
  incubation and firm-formation as third academic
  mission
• The Entrepreneurial University can be built on a
  teaching as well as a research university base
  each academic mission instigates and reinforces
  the other

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Governments optimum  role

• Balance-wheel in downturn government
  incentivising new industries as well as renewing
  old ones
• Ability to create funding schemes for RD and
  Public Venture Capital
• Picking Winners e.g. UK Air Ministry Fighter
  Procurement in 1930s, general Specifications, a
  few picks, Hurricane and Spitfire

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The evolution of the firm

• From hierarchical to Lateral Formats
• Smaller firms with flatter structures less
  middle management
• Knowledge-based start-ups with high-growth and
  job creation potential
• Engines for regional development through
  participation in research-intensive Clusters and
  Networks
• Foundation of Start-up Universities in
  Developing Countries for firm creation

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Triple Helix Spaces

• Linking knowledge, innovation, governance and
  leadership

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Knowledge space

• Critical mass of research resources
• Underutilized Potential in Universities and
  Research Institutes
• Key regional RD actors
• Key policies and programmes on human resources
  for RD and research infrastructures

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Consensus space

• Neutral ground to Generate Ideas and Strategies
  - Triple Helix Meeting Place
• Formal and informal networks as basis for
  generating support for new projects
• Leadership emerging from various Triple Helix
  actors

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Innovation space

• Regional Innovation Organizer (RIO)
• Creation of hybrid organizations Venture Capital
  Firms, Science Parks, Incubators
• Formulation of policies IPR, Fiscal measures for
  RD, Public/private partnerships

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Circulation of Individuals in Triple Helix
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Newcastle Innovations

• Professors of Practice
• Researchers of Practice
• Novum Trivium

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Newcastle University Professors of Practice

• Turns traditional teaching PoP model into
  research model
• ½ time in Firm and ½ time in University
• PhDs who have started firms, developed advanced
  research ideas not appropriate for firm more
  suitable to university
• Entrepreneurial Role Models for students and
  faculty
• Develop larger scale projects and strengthen
  links with business community

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Researchers of Practice

• 1/2 time in Academic Unit e.g. Business School,
  Engineering, Medicine etc
• 1/2 time in Tech Transfer office
• Mentored by PoPs
• PoPs RoPs A seamless web from firm to
  university and within University from academic to
  business development sides
• Hypothesis more productive than traditional
  academics 2 sources of inspiration

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Novum Trivium

• Model for reform of undergraduate education
• Update classical Trivium of grammar, rhetoric and
  dialectics
• Structure
• A Traditional Discipline
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Another Language and Culture

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Hadrians Valley

• Create critical mass by linking regional
  resources
• Oresund Copenhagen/Skane Linking cross border
  regions, Infrastructure Icon Bridge
• Hadrians Valley Scotland/Northeast UK,
  Infrastructure Icon e.g. High-Speed Rail

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The Triple Helix University-Industry-Government
Innovation in ActionLondon Routledge, 2008