Doctoral program ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION, Faculty of Economics in Osijek, in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences VERN’ organizes Triple Helix Doctoral Seminar in Zagreb, which will be held by Professor Henry Etzkowitz, originator of the Triple Helix concept. Triple Helix Doctoral Seminar is intended for doctoral students of the doctoral programENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION, other doctoral students interested in the topic of innovation, as well as for academics, business leaders, government staff and other specialists involved in the different aspects of innovation management.
The Triple Helix concept moved three major elements (university, government, business sector) from isolated or bilateral, even trilateral cooperation toward spiral multilateral dimensions of collaborative relationships among the three institutional spheres which contributes to the increasing innovation capacity of the whole society. In addition to fulfilling their traditional functions, each institutional sphere also “takes the role of the other” producing new synergies. Institutions taking non-traditional roles are viewed as a major potential source of innovation. New modes of interdisciplinary knowledge production, involving Triple Helix partners, inspire research collaboration and firm-formation projects, what has special importance in the current international competitive circumstances. More about the Triple Helix concept can be found at: http://www.triplehelixconference.org.
Dr. Etzkowitz, Research Professor, Stanford University, Human Sciences and Advanced Technologies Research Institute (H-STAR) is a scholar of international reputation in innovation studies as the originator of the ‘Entrepreneurial University’ and ‘Triple Helix’ concepts that link university with industry and government at national and regional levels. As President of the Triple Helix Association, he is at the centre of a unique international network of several hundred scholars, policy analysts and practitioners of university-industry-government relations. Henry is also the co-founder of the Triple Helix International Conference Series, which has produced a series of books, special journal issues and policy analyses.
Seminar will be held in English language, and will cover the following topics:
– Types of Triple Helix Model: Statist, Laissez-faire, Balanced
– Entrepreneurial University
– Triple Helix spaces: Knowledge, Consensus, Innovation
– Triple Helix conceptual axes: Institutional Spheres, Integrative Spaces, Individual Dynamics
Seminar will take place on 8th and 9th April, 2011 in Zagreb, at University of Applied Sciences VERN’, Iblerov trg 10, 2nd floor. For additional information about the seminar and to apply, please visit http://www.ices-study.org.
