Inovao na Inovao: Governance in the Triple Helix

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Inovação na InovaçãoGovernance in the Triple
Helix

• Henry EtzkowitzStanford UniversityTriple Helix
  Research Group bvbaEdinburgh 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
• 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

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Statist Triple Helix
Government
Industry
Academia
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State
Laissez-faire Triple Helix
Industry
Academia
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Balanced Triple Helix Model
Innovation at the Intersection of Institutional
Spheres
State
Industry
Academia
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State
Industry
Academia
Civil Society Base of Triple Helix
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Origin of the Triple Helix Model 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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Drivers of Entrepreneurial Science

• Endogenous
• Poly-valent Knowledge multiple simultaneous
  characteristics theoretical/practical
  publishable/patentable
• Exogenous
• Intellectual Property Regulation Clear
  organizational and individual responsibility
  guidelines

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The Entrepreneurial University

• Second Academic Revolution entrepreneurship,
  incubation and firm-formation as third academic
  mission
• Entrepreneurial University is non-linear can
  be built on a teaching as well as a research
  university base
• Entrepreneurial University is combinatorial
  entrepreneurship and research integrated (4G
  PUCRS)

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Governments Positive Intervention

• Direct Government -gt Industry
• Indirect Government -gtUniversity-gtIndustry
• Balance-wheel in downturn government
  incentivising new industries as well as renewing
  old ones

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The evolution of the firm

• From hierarchical to Lateral Formats
• Flatter structures less middle management
• Knowledge-based start-ups with high-growth and
  job creation potential
• From individual firms to Networks of Large Firms,
  SMEs and academic research groups in Joint RD
  Centres

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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, Firm RD
  units and Research Institutes
• Decentralization of Institutes from Mexico City
  after earthquake (R. Casas)

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Consensus space

• Neutral ground to Generate Ideas and Strategies
  - Triple Helix Meeting Place
• Formal and informal networks support new
  innovation projects
• Leadership by various Triple Helix actors

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Innovation space

• Regional Innovation Organizer (RIO)
• Creation of hybrid organizations Venture Capital
  Firm, Incubator and Science Park
• Renewal of Science Parks foundation of
  technology-based universities

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Circulation of Individuals in Triple Helix
U
U
U
G
G
I
I
I
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Professors of Practice (PoPs)

• Turns traditional PoP model on its head from
  teachng to research
• ½ time in Firm and ½ time in University
• Entrepreneurial Role Models for students and
  faculty
• Develop large scale projects and strengthen links
  with business community

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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