Circular Economy in the Triple Helix of Innovation Systems
Circular Economy in the Triple Helix of Innovation Systems
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DOI：
10.3390/su10082646
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
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3.9
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Repo, Petteri
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作者：
Anttonen, Markku;Lammi, Minna;Repo, Petteri
创新体系的三重障碍概念认为，产业、政府和大学之间需要有共识空间，以汇集它们的能力，在系统范围内实现更好的经济和社会发展。基于这一观点，本文实证分析了循环经济概念在“产业”、“政府”和“大学”三个制度领域的形成过程。创新系统不断通过知识生产和交流进行重构，这反映在不同领域概念的发展过程中。通过将自然语言处理工具应用于三个领域（“三重障碍”）中的每一个的关键贡献，表明尽管制度背景确实有助于循环经济的不同概念化，但存在大量但有限的概念共识空间，根据三重障碍，应该为创新提供新的机会。这三个领域共享的共识空间侧重于材料和产品，并将循环经济视为从废物中创造新资源、业务和产品的一种方式。工业领域突出了全球范围内的商业机会，这在政府领域也很明显。政府领域将循环经济与针对工业复兴、经济增长、投资和就业的废物相关创新政策联系起来。反过来，大学领域则侧重于生产和环境问题、废物和知识，与其他两个领域截然不同。循环经济不同概念的重要性是基于三重阻碍系统的逻辑。因此，三重障碍领域之间的充分共识可以推动循环经济概念的应用超越个别领域，实现系统性变革。
The Triple Helix concept of innovation systems holds that consensus space among industry, government and university is required to bring together their competences to achieve enhanced economic and social development on a systemic scale. In line with this argument, this article analyses empirically how the concept of circular economy is conceived in the institutional spheres of "industry", "government" and "university". Innovation systems are constantly being reconstructed through knowledge production and communication, which is reflected in how concepts develop in the different spheres. By applying natural language processing tools to key contributions from each of the three spheres (the "Triple Helix"), it is shown that, although institutional backgrounds do contribute to differing conceptualizations of circular economy, there is a substantial but limited conceptual consensus space, which, according to the Triple Helix, should open new opportunities for innovations. The consensus space shared across the three spheres focuses on materials and products and sees circular economy as a way to create new resources, businesses and products from waste. The industry sphere highlights business opportunities on global scale, which are also evident in the government sphere. The government sphere connects circular economy to waste-related innovation policies targeted at industrial renewal, economic growth, investments and jobs. The university sphere, in turn, focuses on production and environmental issues, waste and knowledge, and is rather distinct from the two other spheres. The importance of the differing conceptions of circular economy is based on the logic of Triple Helix systems. Accordingly, sufficient consensus between the Triple Helix spheres can advance the application of the concept of circular economy beyond the individual spheres to achieve systemic changes.