A growth model for the quadruple helix

• Autor(es): Afonso, Óscar ; Monteiro, Sara ; Thompson, Maria João Ribeiro
• Data: 2012
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/22680
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): Economic growth; Quadruple helix; Innovation systems; Government expenditure
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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 Infraestructures, 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.