The ‘well-stirred reactor’: Evolution of industry-government-university relations in Canada

Cooper H Langford, Martha W Langford and R Douglas Burch

Science and Public Policy, 1997, vol. 24, issue 1, 21-27

Abstract: The history of government-university-industry interaction in Canada shows us that the quality of intersectoral networks is crucial. An explanatory model is developed which is based on networks sufficiently connected that a ‘phase transition’ to high interactivity can occur. The assertion is that innovations are events that ‘crystallize’ out of such highly connected networks. It appears that the existence of critically complex communication networks that allowed this crystallization was as important as, or more important than, explicitly articulated government policies. The model should be useful beyond the Canadian case. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1997
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