A Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Approach to Regional Innovation Systems in the Transformation to a Forestry-Based Bioeconomy
By Ida Grundel, Margareta Dahlström. 2016
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This article aims to understand the possible preconditions for the transformation of a regional innovation system (RIS) into a quadruple and quintuple helix system applied to the development of a sustainable forestry-based bioeconomy in Värmland, Sweden. Research points to the necessity not only of further developing current innovation systems to include more actors than earlier but also of taking concern for the environment as a way towards attaining sustainability. The research was carried out in response to the need to understand the fourth helix and its role in RIS and to transform to a sustainable bioeconomy, as identified by researchers, policymakers and industry representatives. This study was inspired by participatory transdisciplinarity and a transdisciplinary research design, acknowledging the importance of a variety of actors in knowledge production from different spheres of society. Much of the empirical material gathered for this research was based on interviews and a workshop with different stakeholders. The results show that the use of a quintuple helix RIS in Värmland for the transformation to a forestry-based bioeconomy could be a possible way forward towards sustainability. The model proposes that involvement of civil society in the innovation system could contribute to a larger societal transformation that aims to change consumer behaviour, production patterns, technological developments, infrastructure, norms and values. However, the involvement of civil society in the innovation system must still be regarded as part of a vision statement in regional policy documents.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Quadruple helix as a network of relationships: creating value within a Swedish regional innovation system (2019, background): “…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 Cozzio 2016).”
- Agency and actors in regional industrial path development. A framework and longitudinal analysis (2020, background): “…been to stimulate greening and diversification of the pulp and paper sector in Värmland and transformation of the economy to a more bio-based and circular economy, to position Värmland as a large-scale demonstrator of forestbased bioeconomy (Interview 2; Interview 5; Grundel and Dahlström, 2016).”