The Quintuple Helix innovation model: global warming as a challenge and driver for innovation

By Elias G. Carayannis, Thorsten D. Barth, D. J. Campbell. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2012

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The Triple Helix innovation model focuses on university-industry-government relations. The Quadruple Helix embeds the Triple Helix by adding as a fourth helix the ‘media-based and culture-based public’ and ‘civil society’. The Quintuple Helix innovation model is even broader and more comprehensive by contextualizing the Quadruple Helix and by additionally adding the helix (and perspective) of the ‘natural environments of society’. The Triple Helix acknowledges explicitly the importance of higher education for innovation. However, in one line of interpretation it could be argued that the Triple Helix places the emphasis on knowledge production and innovation in the economy so it is compatible with the knowledge economy. The Quadruple Helix already encourages the perspective of the knowledge society, and of knowledge democracy for knowledge production and innovation. In a Quadruple Helix understanding, the sustainable development of a knowledge economy requires a coevolution with the knowledge society. The Quintuple Helix stresses the necessary socioecological transition of society and economy in the twenty-first century; therefore, the Quintuple Helix is ecologically sensitive. Within the framework of the Quintuple Helix innovation model, the natural environments of society and the economy also should be seen as drivers for knowledge production and innovation, therefore defining opportunities for the knowledge economy. The European Commission in 2009 identified the socioecological transition as a major challenge for the future roadmap of development. The Quintuple Helix supports here the formation of a win-win situation between ecology, knowledge and innovation, creating synergies between economy, society, and democracy. Global warming represents an area of ecological concern, to which the Quintuple Helix innovation model can be applied with greater potential.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Quadruple helix as a network of relationships: creating value within a Swedish regional innovation system (2019, background): “…between knowledge production and networks in RISs and the fourth helix is discussed in several papers (see, e.g. Carayannis and Campbell 2009, 2014; Carayannis, Barth, and Campbell 2012; Carayannis, Campbell, and Rehman 2016; Grundel and Dahlstr€om 2016; Kolehmainen et al. 2016; Lew, Khan, and…”
Helix Trilogy: the Triple, Quadruple, and Quintuple Innovation Helices from a Theory, Policy, and Practice Set of Perspectives (2021, background): “…the Quintuple Helix regards environmental or ecological challenges also as possible drivers for further and new knowledge and innovation, by this future knowledge and future innovation, which may have the potential to also finally advance society, economy and democracy (Carayannis et al., 2012).”
Knowledge Transfer in University Quadruple Helix Ecosystems: An Absorptive Capacity Perspective (2016, positive): “A defining feature of an effective quadruple helix is mutual interdependence between all stakeholders (Leysdorff, 2012; Carayannis et al., 2012) however, it was evident in the case study that the different stakeholders often tried to exert their salience (Frooman, 1999; Miller et al, 2014) creating…”
A Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Approach to Regional Innovation Systems in the Transformation to a Forestry-Based Bioeconomy (2016, background): “The aim of the quintuple helix model is to establish nature as a central component for innovation and knowledge production (Carayannis et al. 2012), and the model is the pivotal force and driver for progress.”