Henry Etzkowitz

Biographic Data

ID235279
NAMEHenry Etzkowitz
GIVEN NAMESHenry
FAMILY NAMEEtzkowitz
SIGNATUREETZKOWITZ H
AFFILIATIONSPurchase College
ORCID0000-0001-8185-8153
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS363
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Innovation and the Triple Helix

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, L LeydesdorffARTICLEScientometrics2025

  • Academic soulmate: A memory of Loet Leydesdorff

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLEScientometrics2025

  • Navigating troubled waters: Antecedents and challenges for a common nexus towards ‘safe helix harbours’

    Open AccessIvo Štefan, Ekaterina Albats et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2025

    Universities’ roles in helix settings are increasingly complex, partly due to universities’ multiple missions, one of which is to create social value. To narrow this gap and clarify how universities navigate helix settings, our paper focuses on the ways universities might engage with diverse stakeholders in their ecosystem in order to co-create social value and further aims to grasp which challenges as well as facilitating factors are present in …

  • Licensing life: The evolution of Stanford university's technology transfer practice

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Chunyan ZhouARTICLETechnological Forecasting and…2021

  • Women founders in a high-tech incubator: Negotiating entrepreneurial identity in the Indian socio-cultural context

    Open AccessNamrata Gupta, Henry EtzkowitzARTICLEInternational Journal of Gender…2021References: 10

    Purpose This study aims to understand the socio-cultural context of Indian women's high-tech entrepreneurial experience. Despite a small proportion of women entrepreneurs, and the traditional gender dynamics among the educated middle-classes that appears to be antithetical to female entrepreneurship; women-led high-tech start-ups are on the rise. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with women founders at an acade…

  • Dynamics of triple helix relations in the development of cleaner technologies: Case of a Chinese power equipment manufacturer

    Yan Yang, Henry Etzkowitz et al.ARTICLEInnovation and Development2018References: 6

    This paper analyses the 60-year-long dynamics of triple helix relations in the development of cleaner power generation technologies of a large state-owned Chinese power equipment manufacturer. It opens the black box of the firm and provides a whole picture of the firm's triple helix relations and the changes in the process. It addresses two research questions: How did the triple helix relations of the case firm evolve over the different stages of…

  • Counter-cyclical public venture capital: Debt-funding as an anti-austerity innovation strategy

    Open AccessAlex Etzkowitz, Henry EtzkowitzARTICLESocial Science Information2017References: 32

    This article outlines a counter-cyclical innovation strategy to achieve prosperity, derived from an innovative project, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). We identify an 'innovation paradox' in that the very point in the business cycle, when legislators are tempted to view austerity as a cure for economic downturns and to reduce innovation spend, is when an increase is most needed to create new industries and jobs and inno…

  • Hélice Tríplice: Inovação E Empreendedorismo Universidade-Indústria-Governo

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Chunyan ZhouARTICLEEstudos Avançados2017Cited by: 21References: 8

    A Hélice Tríplice tornou-se um modelo reconhecido internacionalmente, que está no âmago da disciplina emergente de estudos de inovação, e um guia de políticas e práticas nos âmbitos local, regional, nacional e multinacional. As interações universidade-indústria-governo, que formam uma "hélice tríplice" de inovação e empreendedorismo, são a chave para o crescimento econômico e o desenvolvimento social baseados no conhecimento. O artigo apresenta a…

  • Citizen-driven innovation: Stem cell scientists, patient advocates and financial innovators in the making of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (Cirm)

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Annika RickneARTICLEPrometheus2014

    Our attention in this paper is to the relationship between society and science in science-based innovation processes. We propose that citizens’ and scientists’ actions are interlaced and that civil society provides a platform on which novel approaches to innovation may be formed. The empirical focus is set on stem cells and regenerative medicine in California, and the emergence of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). In an e…

  • Triple Helix Systems: An Analytical Framework for Innovation Policy and Practice in the Knowledge Society

    Open AccessMarina Ranga, Henry EtzkowitzARTICLEIndustry and Higher Education2013

    This paper introduces the concept of Triple Helix systems as an analytical construct that synthesizes the key features of university–industry–government (Triple Helix) interactions into an ‘innovation system’ format, defined according to systems theory as a set of components, relationships and functions. Among the components of Triple Helix systems, a distinction is made between (a) R&D and non-R&D innovators; (b) ‘single-sphere’ and ‘multi-spher…

  • Anatomy of the entrepreneurial university

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLESocial Science Information2013Cited by: 11References: 25

    This article analyzes the evolution of the entrepreneurial university from a narrow focus on capturing the commercializable results of the 'meandering stream of basic research' to a broader interest in firm formation and regional economic development. No longer limited to schools like MIT, specialized for that purpose, entrepreneurial aspirations have spread to the academic mainstream. Academic involvement in (1) technology transfer, (2) firm for…

  • Silicon Valley at risk? Sustainability of a global innovation icon: An introduction to the Special Issue

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLESocial Science Information2013Cited by: 2References: 23

    The increasing dependence of Silicon Valley on external sources of human capital and technological innovation is a potential Achilles' heel if competitive regions achieve 'stickiness' and retain these assets. Silicon Valley developed in a successive triple helix format, each helix building upon and reinforcing the other. A single helix university development model morphed into a dual helix university-industry symbiotic relationship that became a …

  • StartX and the 'Paradox of Success: Filling the gap in Stanford's entrepreneurial culture

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLESocial Science Information2013Cited by: 1References: 14

    Stanford University's legendary success in technology transfer, based upon a relatively small group of serial faculty entrepreneurs, masked unrealized potential residing in the underutilized inventions of less entrepreneurially experienced faculty and students. An optimum academic entrepreneurship and technology-transfer regime matches various levels of inventor interest and involvement with appropriate organizational competence and support. The …

  • Whither the university? The Novum Trivium and the transition from industrial to knowledge society

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Marina Ranga et al.ARTICLESocial Science Information2012Cited by: 3References: 13

    Beyond the Bologna Process key objective of achieving a common structure of the European tertiary educational format is the fundamental issue of the changing content of higher education. The highly specialized curricula of the Industrial Society no longer fully meet the needs of an emerging Knowledge Society that requires citizens with entrepreneurial and inter-cultural capabilities to innovate and respond to change in an increasingly inter-conne…

  • The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2011Cited by: 9

  • Normative change in science and the birth of the Triple Helix

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLESocial Science Information2011Cited by: 12References: 21

    A process of normative change in academic science makes spin-off entrepreneurship compatible with the advancement of knowledge. A parallel process of normative change in industrial science produces a creative tension between organizational and scientific goals that enhances the attainment of both objectives. The creation of hybrid organizations mediating between university-industry and university-government brings these institutional spheres into…

  • Polyvalent Knowledge and the Entrepreneurial University: A Third Academic Revolution

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Riccardo VialeARTICLECritical Sociology2010

    Knowledge is increasingly ‘polyvalent’ as theoretical, practical and interdisciplinary implications form a common center of gravity. The changing nature of knowledge drives the institutional spheres of university and industry together in advanced industrial societies and developing countries, alike. Government policy lags and leads a shift from mono helix to triple helix knowledge production under different societal conditions. An entrepreneurial…

  • The Triple Helix: University-Industry-Government Innovation in Action

    Henry EtzkowitzBOOKThe triple helix2008

    A Triple Helix of university-industry-government interactions is the key to innovation in increasingly knowledge-based societies. As the creation, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge moves from the periphery to the center of industrial production and governance, the concept of innovation, in product and process, is itself being transformed. In its place is a new sense of 'innovation in innovation' - the restructuring and enhancement of th…

  • Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2008Cited by: 1

  • Women in Science: A Fair Shake

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Namrata GuptaARTICLEMinerva2006Cited by: 3

  • The innovating region: Toward a theory of knowledge‐based regional development

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Magnus KlofstenARTICLER and D Management2005

    This paper sets forth a model of knowledge‐based regional development conceived as a set of multi‐linear dynamics, based on alternative technological paradigms. Utilizing longitudinal data from a Swedish region, and international comparisons, four stages of development are identified: Inception, Implementation, Consolidation and Renewal. Innovation policy is created ‘bottom‐up’ as an outcome of ‘collective entrepreneurship’ through collaboration …

  • The evolution of the entrepreneurial university

    Henry EtzkowitzARTICLEInternational Journal of…2004

    A second academic revolution, integrating a mission for economic and social development is transforming the traditional teaching and research university into an entrepreneurial university. The Triple Helix thesis postulates that the interaction among university-industry-government is the key to improving the conditions for innovation in a knowledge-based society. More than the development of new products in firms, innovation is the creation of ne…

  • Innovation in Innovation: The Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

    Open AccessHenry EtzkowitzARTICLESocial Science Information2003Cited by: 67References: 23

    Innovation is increasingly based upon a "Triple Helix" of university-industry-government interactions. The increased importance of knowledge and the role of the university in incubation of technology-based firms has given it a more prominent place in the institutional firmament. The entrepreneurial university takes a proactive stance in putting knowledge to use and in broadening the input into the creation of academic knowledge. Thus it operates …

  • Hyperdéterminisme: Idéologies de l'énergie et l'environnement aux États-Unis

    Henry EtzkowitzARTICLESociologie et sociétés2002Cited by: 1

    Cette étude présente une analyse des problèmes concernant l'énergie et l'environnement aux États-Unis du point de vue de trots théories contradictoires sur la technologie : dure, douce et moyenne. On y discute aussi des mouvements sociaux (par ex. touchant l'environnement, les consommateurs ou l'énergie nucléaire) qui contestent la validité des technologies dures. On y présente également les prémisses du déterminisme technologique implicites dans…

  • Gender Inequality in Science: A Universal Condition

    Open AccessHenry Etzkowitz, Carol KemelgorARTICLEMinerva2001Cited by: 6