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The Triple Helix Thesis: University-Industry-Government Relations. Enhanced Role of University in knowledge-based societyTaking the role of the other e.g., university forming firms; government as venture capitalist; industry raising training to higher levels (e.g. Motorola University) Shift from b
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1. THE INNOVATING REGION: Entrepreneurial University and the Triple Helix Henry Etzkowitz
Science Policy Institute
Purchase College
State University of New York
henryetzkowitz@earthlink.net
Newcastle University 26 November 2004
2. The Triple Helix Thesis: University-Industry-Government Relations Enhanced Role of University in knowledge-based society
Taking the role of the other e.g., university forming firms; government as venture capitalist; industry raising training to higher levels (e.g. Motorola University)
Shift from bilateral to trilateral interactions: NSF University-Industry Centers
4. University Missions The First Academic Revolution
late 19th century; ongoing
The Research University
research groups and centers
The Second Academic Revolution
20th century; ongoing
The Entrepreneurial University
new firms and networks
5. Bi-Evolution of University Missions
Teaching: Individuals and Organizations
Research: Individual and Group
Economic and Social Development:
Companies and Region
6. Research Groups as Quasi-Firms Professor as research entrepreneur, team leader, fund raiser and personnel manager
Collaboration among graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and technicians
Feels like a small business; absence of direct profit motive
7. U.S. Entrepreneurial University Extension of Research Mission
Professors as Firm Founders: Transition from Quasi Firms to Firms
Sign of Change: Conflict of Interest Controversies over Dual Roles
8. European Entrepreneurial University Top Down Transition: Third Mission
Extension of Teaching Role: Students as basis of firm-formation
Sign of Change: Establishment of Entrepreneurship Training Programs
9. Brazil Entrepreneurial University Entrepreneurial Education spread across the university; Incubators for Student Firms
Extension of Incubation from high-tech to low-tech firms, arts groups, NGOs, cooperatives
Incubator Networks among Universities; Supported by Industry Associations, Municipalities, State and Federal Government
10. University of the Future INCUBATION
Incubators Integrated into Academic Units
RESEARCH
Hybrid centers comprising academic, industry and government researchers
TEACHING
Virtual classes including on-campus and off-campus participants
11. Creative Reconstruction
Triple Helix Spin-off (THS):
Firm formation from academic/
industrial knowledge resources
with public venture capital?
Increasing Returns
12. Regional Growth Spaces Knowledge Space:
Consensus Space
Innovation Space
13. Knowledge Space Universities and Research Institutes
Underutilized Potential
Research Projects with economic and social relevance
14. Consensus Space Fora to Generate Ideas and Strategies
Triple Helix Meeting Place
e.g. New England Council; Niteroi Technopole; Amsterdam Knowledge Circle
15. Innovation Space Regional Innovation Organizer (RIO)
Organizational Experiments
Invention of Venture Capital Firm
16. The Triple Helix Region Self Renewing
Ability to move from one technological paradigm to another
Synthesis of new fields with economic and theoretical potential
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17. Regional Science Policy Research Center Schemes
Seed Venture Capital
Infrastructure Development: California Proposition 71: 3 billion
Bond issue, borrowed money
Return through IP and equity in firms created