[Sigmetrics] "Open Innovation" and "Triple Helix" Models of Innovation: Can Synergy in Innovation Systems Be Measured?

[Loet Leydesdorff]

 <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2791914> "Open
Innovation" and "Triple Helix" Models of Innovation: 
Can Synergy in Innovation Systems Be Measured?

 

Loet Leydesdorff [1] * & Inga Ivanova [2]

 

The model of "Open Innovations" (OI) can be compared with the "Triple Helix
of University-Industry-Government Relations" (TH) as attempts to find
surplus value in bringing industrial innovation closer to public R&D.
Whereas the firm is central in the model of OI, the TH adds
multi-centeredness: in addition to firms, universities and (e.g., regional)
governments can take leading roles in innovation eco-systems. In addition to
the (transversal) technology transfer at each moment of time, one can focus
on the dynamics in the feedback loops. Under specifiable conditions,
feedback loops can be turned into feedforward ones that drive innovation
eco-systems towards self-organization and the auto-catalytic generation of
new options. The generation of options can be more important than historical
realizations ("best practices") for the longer-term viability of
knowledge-based innovation systems. A system without sufficient options, for
example, is locked-in. The generation of redundancy-the Triple Helix
indicator-can be used as a measure of unrealized but technologically
feasible options given a historical configuration. Different coordination
mechanisms (markets, policies, knowledge) provide different perspectives on
the same information and thus generate redundancy. Increased redundancy not
only stimulates innovation in an eco-system by reducing the prevailing
uncertainty; it also enhances the synergy in and innovativeness of an
innovation system.

 

** apologies for cross-postings

Preprint available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2791914 

 

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Loet Leydesdorff 

Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)

 <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> loet at leydesdorff.net ;
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 
Associate Faculty,  <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/> SPRU, University of
Sussex; 

Guest Professor  <http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/> Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou;
Visiting Professor,  <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html> ISTIC,
Beijing;

Visiting Professor,  <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/> Birkbeck, University of London;


 <http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en>
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en

 


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[1] University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research
(ASCoR), PO Box 15793, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; email:
loet at leydesdorff.net; * corresponding author

[2] Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National
Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), 20 Myasnitskaya
St., Moscow, 101000, Russia; and School of Economics and Management, Far
Eastern Federal University, 8, Sukhanova St., Vladivostok 690990, Russia;
inga.iva at mail.ru 

 

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