A Triple Helix Strategy for Promoting SME Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sauwapa Yuwawutto ◽  
Thitapha Smitinont ◽  
Numtip Charoenanong ◽  
Nattaka Yokakul ◽  
Somchai Chatratana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
The North ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
Assistance Programme ◽  
Effective Network ◽  
The University

This paper examines the university–industry–government relationship as a mechanism for enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The case of a community enterprise producing dried banana products in the north of Thailand is used to demonstrate the significance of the Triple Helix model for business and technology development in SMEs. Government initiatives designed to promote innovation leading to price and quality competitiveness of the products of SMEs and community enterprises are explored and their effectiveness is discussed. In developing countries, where there are weak links and limited interactions between the institutional sectors of government, academia and industry, intermediaries play a crucial role in building networks to facilitate the transfer and exchange of knowledge. Effective network links would enable SMEs to have access to various sources of financial, knowledge, technology and market support. In Thailand, the Industrial Technology Assistance Programme (ITAP) plays an important intermediary role in identifying the needs of SMEs, accessing relevant knowledge and technology from universities and other sources of knowledge, and matching the demand of SMEs for knowledge/technology with the supply available from universities and research and development laboratories. The experience of the dried banana community enterprise discussed in this paper gives credence to the view that SMEs in developing countries such as Thailand would benefit significantly from technology policy based on the Triple Helix model and the proactive role of intermediary agencies such as ITAP.

Promoting Entrepreneurial Culture in the University

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 375-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidro de Pablo ◽  
Fernando Alfaro ◽  
Miriam Rodriguez ◽  
Esperanza Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
Entrepreneurial Culture ◽  
Corporate Foundations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The University

This paper presents a case of collaboration between different types of public services and the private sector for the promotion of an entrepreneurial culture. This collaboration is achieved by means of a centre established and developed by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Centro de Iniciativas Emprendedoras (the Centre for Entrepreneurial Initiatives, CIADE). Since its creation CIADE has, because of a lack of university-allocated financial resources, been collaborating with a wide range of organizations in accordance with the Triple Helix model, including three levels of public administration (national, regional and local), several private businesses and different corporate civic bodies (mostly corporate foundations). CIADE's principal, distinctive attributes, with regard to the Triple Helix, are collaboration, self-financing, project management and a horizontal hierarchical structure which allows rapid accommodation of and adaptation to the changing circumstances of its environment.

scholarly journals Technology Policy in Developing Countries: Indigenous Programs and Political Econorny Theory

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Joel R. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
China And India ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Applied Technology ◽  
India And China

The nature of the state and whether it is able to create a national innovation system have been the primary variables determining the direction of technology policy. This article considers five major cases: Taiwan and Korea, India. China, and Tanzania. Two of the cases, Taiwan and Korea, represent Newly lndustrializing Economies, while India and China represent emerging concinencal economies. All four have been, to varying degrees, Successful instances. Taiwan and Korea were able to link industrial development with applied technology development. while China and India had mixed successes and took much longer to realize technology policy goals. Tanzania illustrates the difficulties encountered by developing countries in creating a science and technology infrastructure. The article also presents theoretical implications of these cases, and assesses shortcomings in technology policy literature.

scholarly journals Theorizing the Triple Helix model: Past, present, and future

Triple Helix ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhuo Cai ◽  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

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 analytical and normative, theoretical, practical and policy-relevant. We identify lacunae and suggest future analytical trajectories for theoretical development of the Triple Helix model. The explanatory power of Triple Helix has been strengthened by integrating various social science concepts, e.g. Simmel’s triad, Schumpeter’s organizational entrepreneur, institutional logics and social networks, into its framework. As scholars and practitioners from various disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research fields, e.g. artificial intelligence, political theory, sociology, professional ethics, higher education, regional geography and organizational behavior join Triple Helix studies or find their perspectives integrated, new directions appear for Triple Helix research.

SCRAN

2011 ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Deakin
Keyword(s):  
Triple Helix ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
User Profiling ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Academic Network ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry ◽  
The Web

This chapter draws attention to the triple-helix model of knowledge production and the Web-services assembled to support the development of the SmartCities (inter) Regional Academic Network as a community of practice for standardising the transformation of eGovernment services. It draws particular attention to the University-Industry-Government collaborations (triple-helix) underlying the Web 2.0 service-orientated architecture of this knowledge infrastructure and the deployment of such technologies as an enterprise allowing communities to learn about how to standardise eGovernment services as transformative business-to-citizen applications. The chapter serves to highlight the critical role business-to-citizen applications play in making it possible for cities to be smart in reaching beyond the transactional logic of service provision and grasping the potential regional innovation systems offer to democratise the customisation of eGovernment through multi-channel access and via user profiling.

The triple helix model and intellectual property: The case of the University of Brasilia

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 101945
Author(s):  
Polyana de Almeida Borges ◽  
Lívia Pereira de Araújo ◽  
Larisse A. Lima ◽  
Grace Ferreira Ghesti ◽  
Talita Souza Carmo
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
The University

The formation and growth of Google: A firm-level triple helix perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Steiber ◽  
Sverker Alänge
Keyword(s):  
Triple Helix ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Firm Formation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry

The Triple Helix model of innovation systems is widely diffused. The fundamental idea of the model is that ‘university’ can play an enhanced role in innovation in knowledge-based societies and that the three helices – ‘university’, ‘industry’ and ‘government’ – interact in order to produce innovation and therefore regional and national economic growth. This is, however, only one model among several different systemic approaches for explaining regional differences in innovativeness. While the triple helix model emphasizes the role of the university for regional innovativeness, the other systemic approaches call attention to either industry or government as having the lead role in innovation. Further, the triple helix model is developed and primarily explored from a macro-level perspective and not from a firm-level perspective. Finally, while the theoretical value of triple helix interactions are reasonably confirmed, there are still gaps in the triple helix concept, and the practical value is only just beginning to realize its potential. From a firm-level perspective, the purpose of this article is therefore to test the applicability and practical value of the triple helix model when exploring the formation and growth of firms using the case of Google Inc. Useful when exploring a firm’s formation and growth, the triple helix model forces the exploration to start even before the entrepreneur enters the scene, which provides a more holistic picture of firm formation. The three helices were all found to play important but changing roles in the different phases of firm formation and growth. The Google case contributes further understanding of the nature and historical evolution of interactions between the three helices, thereby filling some gaps in the triple helix concept. The Google case also identifies a number of mechanisms for interaction and the important role of the bridging organizations that connect the helices and contribute to the development of interactions. Finally, the concept of ‘spaces’ proved relevant and useful, although in the perspective of a firm, the concept has a broader meaning and exists on different levels.

The Interaction of the University with External Partners: Trends, Experience, Industry Specifics

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
А. Тихонов ◽  
A. Tihonov ◽  
М. Федотова ◽  
M. Fedotova ◽  
В. Коновалова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Triple Helix ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Moscow Aviation Institute ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The University

The article deals with the role of universities from the perspective of socio-economic development of society on the basis of the «triple helix» model. The work of educational structures (universities) is considered as a complex network of interaction with: other universities; multi-level educational organizations; enterprises, business, government agencies. The authors identify areas, possible forms and results of interaction between the University and various partners for the formation of youth labor activity. A number of examples in this article are based on the experience of the Department of «personnel Management» of the Moscow Aviation Institute.

scholarly journals The Entrepreneurial University: How to Develop the Entrepreneurial Orientation of Academia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosangela Feola ◽  
Roberto Parente ◽  
Valentina Cucino
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
University Education ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
External Context ◽  
The University

Abstract In the last years, universities have assumed a prominent role in the science and technology-based economic development. The concept of entrepreneurial university, a key concept in the triple helix model developed by Etzkowitz, identifies the evolution of the university role with the addition to the traditional missions of university (education and research) of a third mission that is to contribute to the economic development through the transfer of research results from the laboratory to the economic system. The objective of the research is to analyze how universities are implementing this new mission and investigate factors affecting their entrepreneurial orientation. More specifically, our paper aims to investigate the existence of a relationship among the entrepreneurial orientation of university and some factors representing the internal and external context in which the university is involved.

scholarly journals Linking the Performance of Entrepreneurial Universities to Technoparks and University Characteristics in Turkey

REGION ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Tuzin Baycan ◽  
Gokcen Arkali Olcay
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Development Zone ◽  
Technological Research Council ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

Universities’ third mission of knowledge commercialization imposes them a core role as being entrepreneurial universities in the triple helix along with the government and industry to contribute to the regional development and innovation. The emergence of entrepreneurial universities is relatively a new concept in Turkey attracting stakeholders of higher education, policy developers and scholars. The contribution of the entrepreneurial universities to the entrepreneurship ecosystem and regional innovativeness has been quantified via an index developed by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council starting in 2012. Using this index as the dependent variable in our model, we explore how being located in a technology development zone and other university-specific characteristics play a role in getting higher scores in this index of the most entrepreneurial and innovative universities. Our analyses highlight how the contribution of universities undertaking technology development activities through a formal channel as in the form of technology development zones differ to the regional entrepreneurship and innovativeness. While the performance of the technology development zone and the composition of the university students with higher ratios of graduate students positively improve the scores of the universities, universities that are smaller in sizes are found to have higher scores.

From Knowledge Flows to the Triple Helix

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Etzkowitz
Keyword(s):  
Triple Helix ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Triple Helix Model ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University ◽  
University Industry ◽  
Internal Transformation

The ‘triple helix’ model of university–industry–government interaction is explained and distinguished from the ‘knowledge flows' model. The ‘second academic revolution’ in the USA and the internal transformation of the university are then described and the paper cites MIT as an example of how bilateral relations with industry have led to the rise of entrepreneurial science. Finally the article describes the organizational changes being made at universities to accommodate academia ‘s new role.

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