Can Synergy in Triple-Helix Relations Be Quantified? A Review of the Development of the Triple-Helix Indicator

Forthcoming in: Triple Helix: A Journal of University-Industry-Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship

32 Pages Posted: 11 Jan 2014 Last revised: 13 Mar 2015

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Loet Leydesdorff

University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)

Han Park

Yeungnam University

Date Written: January 10, 2014

Abstract

Triple-Helix arrangements of bi- and trilateral relations can be considered as adaptive eco-systems. During the last decade, we have further developed a Triple-Helix indicator of synergy as reduction of uncertainty in niches that can be shaped among three or more sets of relations. Reduction of uncertainty can be generated in correlations among distributions of relations, but this (next-order) effect can be considered as a feedback counterbalancing the uncertainty generated in the localized relations. We first explain the indicator, and then review possible results when this indicator is applied to (i) co-author networks of academic, industrial, and governmental authors and (ii) synergies in the distributions of firms over geographical addresses, technological classes, and industrial-size classes for a number of nations. Co-variation is then considered as a measure of relationship. The balance between globalizing and localizing dynamics can be quantified. Too much synergy locally can also be considered as lock-in. Tendencies are different for the globalizing knowledge dynamics versus locally retaining wealth from knowledge in industrial innovations.

Keywords: indicator, probabilistic entropy, niche, synergy

Suggested Citation

Leydesdorff, Loet and Park, Han, Can Synergy in Triple-Helix Relations Be Quantified? A Review of the Development of the Triple-Helix Indicator (January 10, 2014). Forthcoming in: Triple Helix: A Journal of University-Industry-Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2377307 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2377307

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Han Park

Yeungnam University ( email )

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Kyongsan, Gyeongsan 712-749
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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