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    Towards new Triple Helix Organisations? A comparative study of Competence Centres as knowledge, consensus and innovation spaces

    Meyer, M. and Kuusisto, J. and Grant, K. and De Silva, Muthu and Flowers, S. and Choksy, U. (2019) Towards new Triple Helix Organisations? A comparative study of Competence Centres as knowledge, consensus and innovation spaces. R&D Management 49 (4), pp. 555-573. ISSN 0033-6807.

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    Abstract

    This contribution explores new organisational forms facilitating Triple Helix relations. Analysts have pointed to the blurring of institutional boundaries and the emergence of hybrid organisations at the interface between university, industry, and government. Starting out from the notion that Triple Helix organisations develop and maintain knowledge, consensus and innovation spaces, we explore four cases of competence centres that operate in this context. Comparing them, we identify Finnish SHOK centres as the most radical departure from more traditional forms of university-industry collaboration. These can be characterised as independent legal entities that are involved in integrating a large, possibly cluster-level or technology-focused network, defining the agenda for specific specialisation areas by engaging in all or most of the Triple Helix spaces. We argue they could be better positioned than existing intermediary organisations to deliver the Triple Helix concept.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2018 12:27
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:44
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23943

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