A growth model for the quadruple helix

Oscar Afonso, Sara Monteiro and Maria Thompson

Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2011, vol. 13, issue 5, 849-865

Abstract: We develop a R&D-based growth model with productive public expenditure in order to frame the Quadruple Helix (QH) innovation concept, based on four helices: Academia & Technological Infrastructures , Firms , Government and Civil Society . Our motivation stems from acknowledgment that the relationship between these four helices and their joint impact on growth is in need of a theoretical framework. We aim to emphasise the importance to economic growth of innovation systems structured on these four helices. The introduced model confirms theoretically the notion that increases in: (i) complementarities between distinct productive units, or (ii) in productive government expenditure, lead to higher growth.

Date: 2011
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