Research laboratories in universities face a complex challenge: they must manage multiple projects, diverse teams, and tight deadlines, often with limited resources. While the business world has long used agile and quality management tools to navigate such complexity, these methods are...

The capacity of the Valencian fruit and vegetable sector (i.e., cooperatives) to absorb knowledge has been analysed, as well as the influence of this capacity on the adoption of technological innovations and production processes. This objective is motivated by the multiple challenges currently...

Das deutsche Hochschulsystem befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Das Handlungsfeld des Wissens- und Technologietransfers unterliegt dabei besonderer politischer Aufmerksamkeit. Diese Studie ordnet die Entwicklungen im nationalen und internationalen Vergleich anhand ausgewählter...

This study investigates how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) transforms collaborative innovation by serving not only as a productivity tool but also as a cognitive partner in workplace problem-solving. Drawing on Piaget's theory of assimilation and accommodation, we propose that the...

Academic spin-offs (ASOs) are one of the main means of relationship between universities and the market. ASOs transform scientific research results into products, services, or processes that can be commercialized, promoting the transfer of technology between the academic and industrial sectors....

Sustainable innovation is important in Albania, a small transition economy facing pressures from digitalization, the green transition, and increased competition. Yet the country's innovation system is still developing, and academia-business linkages remain weak. This article investigates how...

This article explores how Third Space Professionals in Mode 3 universities help bridge academic research and real-world application, fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and social progress. They play a key role in mentoring early-career researchers, particularly by involving them in research...

This study critically explored the interconnected themes of entrepreneurial potential, sustainable entrepreneurship, and the evolving role of higher education. It highlighted the intellectual responsibility of universities in confronting two pressing entrepreneurial challenges: the insufficient...

Competitive public research funding is an important policy instrument to foster scientific progress. The effective design of such funding schemes and whether they generate knowledge spillovers to industrial inventions, however, remains debated. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of...

Universities play a critical role in knowledge creation and technological innovation, serving as key drivers of regional development. However, existing research has paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which university innovation inputs translate into firm-level performance,...

This paper develops a transparent, simplified version of Carnehl and Schneider (2025)'s model of knowledge creation. Our tractable framework, which yields closed-form solutions for key welfare trade-offs, preserves the essential economic mechanisms while eliminating mathematical complexity. We...

Cross-affiliation emerges as a new and fast-developing means to promote collaboration in financial research. We find that the average number of affiliations reported per author in the top-three finance journals increases steadily from 1.1 to 1.3 from 1995 to 2016. Scale-free power laws...

Global energy challenges have highlighted the importance of open innovation, which facilitates the development of efficient energy solutions through collaboration and knowledge sharing. However, owing to the increasing diversity of the energy open innovation ecosystem and the lack of...

The dynamic development of Smart Cities, rooted in the idea of sustainable development, requires the implementation of innovative and integrated technological and social solutions. One approach that enables more effective achievement of these goals is the concept of Open Innovation, based on...

Cooperation between different actors in business innovation is crucial for economic development and supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study examines the relationship between innovation cooperation and the employment objectives of firms, such as job maintenance and creation....

We are pleased to present this special issue of the Triple Helix Journal, which stems from the 22nd International Conference of the Triple Helix Association. Held in the vibrant city of São Paulo from June 19 to 21, 2024, the event was hosted by the School of Economics, Business and Accounting...

This article examines the evolution of the Triple Helix as an academic movement, drawing on an analysis of a conference communication database. This exploratory research was performed on the proceedings and raw materials of international and regional events from 1996 to 2024, organized in an MS...

The aim of this study is to propose a theoretical model for performance management in collaborative projects arising from university-industry partnerships. The proposed Quadrant Model assesses the intensity of innovation that companies establish with universities. This analysis includes all...

Incentives for the creation of different types of intermediary organizations within universities must be accompanied by efforts aimed at their integration into the technology transfer (TT) process. This study proposes a meta-model for the integrated management of TT, focusing on the interface...

The Triple Helix model argues for the need to increase entrepreneurial activity among academics, with support from the government and industry. It is widely used but often relies on assumptions of rational coordination and overlooks how real-world decision-making is shaped by bounded cognition,...

We study project selection and development by a principal, interacting with two agents each of whom wants their respective project selected. When the best choice is uncertain, keeping both projects alive gives the principal the ability to adapt its choice in the future, but implies an efficiency...

This paper explores a novel web-based indicator to examine how firms’ disclosure of university ties on their websites shapes their innovation performance. First, using data from the German Community Innovation Survey 2023 and the Tenders Electronic Daily database, combined with firms’...

In this Working Paper, the aim is to examine in depth the commercialization processes of university-generated inventions. The explorative analysis draws on primary and secondary data obtained from the internal invention disclosure database of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) for the...

Organizations aim to overcome path dependency in technological capabilities by diversifying knowledge internally through interfirm and cross-functional innovation. This study investigates the impact of the obeya (big room) concept-a collaborative workspace where diverse disciplines converge in a...

This study focuses on exploring the nature of inter-organizational learning and the types of knowledge that are transferred/shared between foreign multinational companies (MNCs) and their local partner firms within international interfirm alliances in developing countries, particularly those...