The Quadruple Innovation Helix Nexus: A Smart Growth Model, Quantitative Empirical Validation and Operationalization for Oecd Countries

The Quadruple Innovation Helix concept is the synthesis of top-down policies and practices from Government, University and Industry balanced and shaped by bottom-up initiatives and actions by Civil Society. In addition, of significance is the complementary expansion and completion of the Quadruple Innovation Helix by the concept of the Quintuple Innovation Helix, to which an all-encompassing fifth dimension was added, namely, the Environment.

This book expertly defines the impact of public policies and productive public expenditures on innovation and economic growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Economic growth is managed by the creation of differentiated productive units that interact with each other and complement each other in the production of continuous innovation. This book provides a theoretical model of economic growth to demonstrate the importance of governments in promoting innovation. It is a seminal read which scholars, governments, and NGOs will find greatly beneficial.

Sara Paulina de Oliveira Monteiro received a PhD in Economics from the University of Sophia Antipolis, Nice (GREDEG-CNRS), France, and with the academic PhD program in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She is currently the Science and Technology Manager at RAIZ, The Navigator Company, Portugal. She’s also Expert at Industry advisory Committee at ELIXIR-Europe.org, a member of Editorial Board at Coimbra Business Review, Portugal and coordinator of the Advanced Course in Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 at University of Coimbra, Portugal. 

Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI), and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center (EURC) at George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr.Carayannis' teaching and research activities focus on the areas of strategic Government-University-Industry R&D partnerships, technology road-mapping, technology transfer and commercialization, international science and technology policy, technological entrepreneurship, and regional economic development.