Academia • Industry • Government
The aim of the Institute for Triple Helix Innovation is to harness and leverage the complementary expertise of academia, industry and government to facilitate new systems for innovation and novel collaborative processes for creative development.
By serving as a center for collaboration technologies, a champion for flexible organizational structures, and an arbiter of triple helix best practices, the Institute endeavors to foster international, interdisciplinary collaborations amongst the public and private sectors and develop new methodologies for achieving economic and social benefit.
Innovation Occurring Without R&D
Most growth and employment in OECD countries is still coming from low-tech and medium-low tech (LMT) industries. The final report of the 2002-2005 project, Policy and Innovation in Low-Tech (PILOT), summarizes a series of case-studies on low tech companies from eleven European countries, investigating their value chains and regional networks.
American vs. European Innovation Patterns
There is increasing disparity between US and European innovation as measured by patent growth. According to a recent working paper by Riccardo Crescenzi, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, and Michael Storper, one explanation for the US advantage in innovation generation is the different spatial or economic geography of the US and Europe.
