Emergence of a Triple Helix of university—industry—government relations

At a workshop in Amsterdam in January 1996, the Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations was discussed with a focus on the future of university research in the emerging regime of knowledge production and dissemination. The helices are hypothesized as selection mechanisms; the distributed events can then be considered as the outcomes of interactions between these underlying dynamics. A focus is suggested on communicative interactions and reflexive mechanisms thus extending the analytical framework, so that the study of the knowledge infrastructure of society can be endogenized into the model of evolutionary economics.