Redundancy Generation in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

The Measurement of Synergy in Innovation Systems: Redundancy Generation in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations
The Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations can first be considered as an institutional network. However, the correlations in the patterns of relations provide another topology: that of a vector space. Meanings are provided from positions in this latter topology. Meanings can be shared, and sharing can generate redundancy; increasing redundancy provides new options and reduces uncertainty. This evolutionary dynamics feeds back on the institutional networks which develop historically. More...