A Growth Model for the Quadruple Helix

Abstract

We develop a R&D-based growth model with productive public expenditure in order to frame the Quadruple Helix (QH) innovation concept, based on four helices: Academia & Technological Infrastructures, Firms, Government and Civil Society. Our motivation stems from acknowledgment that the relationship between these four helices and their joint impact on growth is in need of a theoretical framework. We aim to emphasise the importance to economic growth of innovation systems structured on these four helices. The introduced model confirms theoretically the notion that increases in: (i) complementarities between distinct productive units, or (ii) in productive government expenditure, lead to higher growth.

A model for innovation in higher education

“…New approaches expand the "triple helix" model to the "quadruple helix innovation" model (Afonso, Monteiro and Thompson 2016;Razak and Saad 2007), which includes academia and technological infrastructures, firms of innovation, government and civil society.…”

Moratorium on Oil Palm: Ecological Recovery or Economic Slowdown?

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Towards Sustainable Cities

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