New from Edward Elgar Publishing – The Capitalization of Knowledge: A Triple Helix of University–Industry–Government

Edited by Riccardo Viale, Fondazione Rosselli, Turin, Italy
and Henry Etzkowitz, Stanford University, H-STAR, the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute, US
and the University of Edinburgh Business School, Centre for
Entrepreneurship Research, UK 

‘How to use – and capitalize – knowledge for the benefit of society has
become even more urgent in the present financial and economic crisis.
This book embraces the tensions inherent in the complex governance
of research and innovation. It argues for strategies appropriate to
the behaviour of complex adaptive systems in an evolutionary mode,
thereby highlighting in a timely manner the necessary fit between
organizational forms and the epistemological structure of knowledge in
the overall context of a fertile investment climate.’
– Helga Nowotny, European Research Council, WWTF Vienna Science and Technology Fund, Austria
‘In the 21st century, economic and social development depends increasingly on knowledge rather
than labour and capital. This book examines how knowledge is exploited through the development
of innovations that yield economic and other benefits. The authors, who include leading figures
from the field of innovation studies, look in particular at the growing links between universities,
government and industry and the evolving “triple helix” relationship as they attempt to develop more
effective means for capitalizing on knowledge. The book will be of considerable interest to policy-makers and to senior managers in industry and universities as well as to innovation scholars.’
– Ben Martin, University of Sussex, UK
‘This book is an authoritative confirmation of the critical role that knowledge plays in economic
transformation. It is an indispensable roadmap for new research programmes and a guidepost for
policy makers around the world.’
– Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School, US
In recent years, university–industry–government interactions have come to the forefront as a method of
promoting economic growth in increasingly knowledge-based societies.
This ground-breaking new volume evaluates the capacity of the triple helix model to represent the
recent evolution of local and national systems of innovation. It analyses both the success of the triple
helix as a descriptive and empirical model within internationally competitive technology regions as
well as its potential as a prescriptive hypothesis for regional or national systems that wish to expand
their innovation processes and industrial development. In addition, it examines the legal, economic,
administrative, political and cognitive dimensions employed to configure and study, in practical terms,
the series of phenomena contained in the triple helix category.
This book will have widespread appeal amongst students and scholars of economics, sociology and
business administration who specialise in entrepreneurship and innovation. Policy-makers involved in
innovation, industrial development and education as well as private firms and institutional agencies will
also find the volume of interest.
Contributors:C. Antonelli, P. Cooke, S. Davenport, P.A. David, W. Dolfsma, G. Dosi, H. Etzkowitz, A. Gambardella, B. Godin, B.H. Hall,
C. Lanciano-Morandat, S. Leitch, L. Leydesdorff, M. Luna, L. Marengo, J.S. Metcalfe, C. Pasquali, M. Teubal, G. Van der Panne, J.L. Velasco,
E. Verdier, R. Viale
2010 368 pp Hardback 978 1 84844 114 9 £89.95 • e978 1 84980 718 0

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