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To conceptualize the integration of Mode 3 knowledge production and the Quadruple Helix model to describe modern innovation ecosystems.

January 1, 2009International Journal of Technology Management2,405 citations

'Mode 3' and 'Quadruple Helix': toward a 21st century fractal innovation ecosystem

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ECElias G. CarayannisGeorge Washington University DCDavid F. J. CampbellUniversität für Weiterbildung Krems

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To conceptualize the integration of Mode 3 knowledge production and the Quadruple Helix model to describe modern innovation ecosystems.
Conceptual framework synthesis analyzing knowledge stocks and flow dynamics across institutional sectors.
Theoretical integration of media-based and culture-based public perspectives alongside traditional university-industry-government helixes.
Knowledge system competitiveness depends on adaptive capacity to combine and co-evolve diverse knowledge modes through co-specialization and co-opetition.
Integration of the public realm creates a multi-layered, fractal knowledge and innovation ecosystem structured for the contemporary knowledge economy.

Abstract

'Mode 3' allows and emphasises the co-existence and co-evolution of different knowledge and innovation paradigms: the competitiveness and superiority of a knowledge system is highly determined by its adaptive capacity to combine and integrate different knowledge and innovation modes via co-evolution, co-specialisation and co-opetition knowledge stock and flow dynamics. The 'Quadruple Helix' emphasises the importance of also integrating the perspective of the media-based and culture-based public. What results is an emerging fractal knowledge and innovation ecosystem, well-configured for the knowledge economy and society.

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