Triple Helix Clusters: Boundary Permeability at University—Industry—Government Interfaces as a Regional Innovation Strategy

Henry Etzkowitz
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Henry Etzkowitz: Stanford University, Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR), Stanford, CA 94305-2004, USA

Environment and Planning C, 2012, vol. 30, issue 5, 766-779

Abstract: With this paper I discuss the importance of permeability among university—industry—government boundaries based on the experience of MIT and Boston, Stanford and Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle and North Carolina, and Newcastle University and Northeast UK. Encouraging permeability in university boundaries is a first step to creating an entrepreneurial university, the driving force of the most successful innovation regions. Underlying drivers of innovation are transferable and may be instituted by specif c policy initiatives addressing gaps in particular cases. These is no one-size-fits-all ‘best-practice’ mode but there are some common characteristics of innovation regimes such as ‘boundary permeability’ that can be positively influenced by explicit measures.

Keywords: regional innovation; entrepreneurial university; triple helix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/c1182

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