This paper builds on the existing triple helix literature and connects this stream of thought with the literature on complexity, networks, and partnerships. The paper then discusses the possibilities of researching triple helix organizations and the measurement problems in assessing complex...

Of recent commercial interest are so-called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) patents, and specifically gene patents, a subset of DNA patents that contain protein-encoding nucleic acid sequences. Heller and Eisenberg addressed the 'tragedy of the anticommons', whereby biomedical research is negatively...

This paper investigates the potential congruence between research and innovation intensity in a country and the role society plays in the adoption and dissemination of scientific results. Using descriptive reports it tries to quantify certain variables and finds a significant degree of...

The term responsible (research and) innovation has gained increasing EU policy relevance in the last two years, in particular within the European Commission's Science in Society programme, in the context of the Horizon 2020 Strategy. We provide a brief historical overview of the concept, and...

There are often scientific uncertainties and ambiguities surrounding novel industrial technologies. This makes regulatory processes problematic. An examination of the literature on mobile phone technology in the UK shows that whilst government and the telecommunications industry research has not...

Brazil combines acute and complex socio-environmental problems and a techno-scientific potential able to cope with it by producing knowledge for social development. Its past shows that when there was the political will to produce the knowledge needed to achieve the goals of a national project,...

Policy makers are responding to the challenges of governing increasingly broad, complex, dynamic and multi-sectoral domains of innovation policy, with more flexible forms of governance. This paper analyses how the coordination of a wider innovation policy agenda was recently dealt with in...