Gauging Readiness for the Quadruple Helix: A Study of 16 European Organizations

Miller

Studies in Higher Education

2016

Given recent demands for more co-creational university technology commercialisation processes involving industry and end users, this paper adopts a micro level approach to explore the challenges faced by universities when managing quadruple helix stakeholders within the technology commercialisation processes. To explore this research question, a qualitative research methodology which relies upon comparative case analysis was adopted to explore the technology commercialisation process in two universities within a UK region. The findings revealed that university type impacts Quadruple Helix stakeholder salience and engagement and consequently university technology commercialisation activities and process. This is important as recent European regional policy fails to account for contextual influences when promoting Quadruple Helix stakeholder relationships in co-creational university technology commercialisation.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding Quadruple Helix relationships of university technology commercialisation: a micro-level approach

Miller

Studies in Higher Education

2016

“…However, the engagement with the fourth helix could have been performed earlier, as they felt left out of the decision-making process. As suggested, a strong active dialog with citizens, through ICTs for example, could influence the innovation ecosystem (MacGregor et al 2010), where civil society actively demands innovative goods and services and participates in the process (Afonso et al 2012). Carayannis and Campbell (2009) discuss the Bpluralism of knowledge modes^(p. 206), and refer to how knowledge, innovation, and democracy interrelate.…”

Section: The Intersection Between the Regional Office And The Universmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Processual Approach for the Quadruple Helix Model: the Case of a Regional Project in Uppsala

García-Terán

Skoglund

2018

J Knowl Econ

This study investigates how the quadruple helix (QH) innovation model functions in a regional renewable energy initiative in Uppsala, Sweden. The focus is on the collaboration between regional office representatives, researchers, consultants and civil society, and their involvement in the attempt to implement and commercialize an innovation within renewable energy for the renovation of an old bridge. The empirical material gathered for this study was based on interviews, conversations, and participant observation during workshops and meetings with different stakeholders. By applying a processual approach, this article illustrates how the QH configuration (universityindustry-government and civil society) emerges and evolves, unfortunately into a failed collaboration and thus a closing down of a commercialization attempt. By analyzing interactions and events of the process, we discuss the coordination problems between the actors to better understand how the dynamics affect local governments' attempts to spur a more innovative climate in the region. In our conclusion, we discuss how the processual approach, when applied, can offer a better understanding of the uncertain development of QH projects in knowledge-based societies and economies.

“…The empirical study illustrates the need for further development of predominant models for promoting innovation. Suggested concepts such as Creative Knowledge Environments and Quadruple Helix will therefore be scrutinized from their potential to increase the diversity of actors and areas being acknowledged as important in the expanding knowledge economy [6,7,14,[18][19][20][21].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women Resource Centres—A Creative Knowledge Environment of Quadruple Helix

Lindberg

Danilda²,

Torstensson³

2011

J Knowl Econ

Creative behaviour has been claimed to be a vital ingredient for the inventions and innovations that are indispensable for the dawning knowledge society. The causality between creativity, knowledge development and innovation ascribes creative knowledge environments an important role as work settings in which people produce new knowledge. The Creative Knowledge Environment approach reaches beyond the Triple Helix model-promoted in innovation policy and research-in its potential to acknowledge creative environments outside academia, industry and government. This is a relevant contribution since the public funding of Triple Helix constellations has been criticised for paradoxically consolidating old structures rather than opening up for creative change. In this article, the model of Women Resource Centres (WRCs)-developed in Sweden and internationalized throughout Europe-serves as an example of how creativity in the organization of joint action networks can make new knowledge and innovation prosper. These centres were initiated in order to promote gender equality in regional development policy, enhancing women's realization of business ideas and innovations. The model of Women Resource Centres illustrates the need for further development of predominant models for promoting innovation. Suggested concepts such as Creative Knowledge Environments and Quadruple Helix have the potential to increase the diversity of actors and areas being acknowledged as important in the expanding knowledge economy, by including the civil society and creative industries. However, the example of WRCs exposes an aspect of creativity and J Knowl Econ (2012) 3:36-52 innovation that is not properly addressed in the suggested models, namely the aspect of gender.