A Growth Model for the Quadruple Helix Innovation Theory
Oscar Afonso,
Sara Monteiro and
Maria Thompson
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Sara Monteiro: Nice Sophia Antipolis University, Faculty of Law, Political Science, Economics and Management
No 12/2010, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho
Abstract:
We propose a theoretical growth model with which to frame analytically the Quadruple Helix Innovation Theory (QHIT). The aim is to emphasise the investment in innovation transmission mechanisms in terms of economic growth and productivity gains, in one-high-technology sector, by stressing the role played by the helices of the Quadruple Helix Innovation Model: Academiaand Technological Infrastructures, Firms of Innovation, Government and Civil Society. In the existing literature, the relationship between the helices and respective impacts on economic growth does not appear clear. Results are fragiledue to data weakness and the inexistence of a theoretical framework to specify the relationship between the helices. Hence our motivation for providing the QHIT with a theoretical growth model. Our intent is to model the importance of emerging, dynamically adaptive, and transdisciplinary knowledge and innovation ecosystems to economic growth. We .nd that higher economic growth rate is obtained as a result of an increase in synergies and complementarities between different productive units, or an incease in productive government expenditure.
Keywords: Economic Growth; Quadruple Helix Innovation Model; Innovation Ecosystems. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 O18 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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