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International Institute of Triple Helix 
(IITH)

Silicon Valley & Beijing


Prof./Dr. Henry Etzkowitz, President of the IITH

                 Senior Researcher, H-STAR Institute, Stanford University and Visiting Professor at School of Management,                        Birkbeck  College, London University and Edinburgh University Business School, UK.


Professor Etzkowitz is a scholar of international reputation in innovation studies as the originator of the 'Entrepreneurial University' and 'Triple Helix' concepts that link university with industry and government at national and regional levels. As President of the Triple Helix Association, he is at the centre of a unique international network of several hundred scholars and practitioners of university-industry-government relations. Henry is also the co-founder of the Triple Helix International Conference Series, which has produced a series of books, special journal issues and policy analyses since it started in Amsterdam, 1996.

Prior to coming to Stanford, he held the Chair in Management of Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise at Newcastle University Business School, UK and served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Technology and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University, US. He has developed several innovative concepts for university-industry-government  linkages together with colleagues in the Triple Helix Research Group at Newcastle University Business School, including: (i) the 'Professors of Practice' (half-time dual positions in high-tech firm and academia held by high-tech entrepreneurs with academic backgrounds and research interests), implemented with the support of the Regional Development Agency One Northeast as a signature feature of Newcastle Science City; and (ii) the 'Novum Trivium', a undergraduate degree program proposed as a contribution to the Bologna process, which combines a specialized academic field (e.g. science, arts, engineering, etc.), with training in entrepreneurship and innovation and a foreign language and culture.

Professor Etzkowitz is the author of Triple Helix: University, Industry Government Innovation in Action (Routledge, 2008), MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science (Routledge, 2002) and co-author of Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Public Venture Capital (Harcourt, 2000), and Universities and the Commercialization of Knowledge: New Dimensions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, In Press). Recently he co-edited The Capitalization of Knowledge: A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government (Edward Elgar, 2010) (with Riccardo Viale). He publishes regularly in Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, R&D Management, European Planning Studies and Minerva.






Prof. /Dr. Chunyan Zhou,  Director of the IITH


With a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Innovation from Northeastern University of the P.R. China and a B.S in physics, a Master's Degree in science education, in recent years Dr. Zhou does interdisciplinary research in innovation (especially university-industry-government triple helix model for innovation) entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial universities, as well as other topics in science and technology innovation. Based on her education background in China and joint research at STS Research Center of Tsjinghua University in China, STS Program at Stanford University (2004 Aug.-2005 Aug.) as a Chinese government sponsor visiting scholar, Stony Brook University, Newcastle University in the UK and Complutense University of Spain as a visiting professor, as well as academic exchange at MIT, Harvard University, Boston University, UC Berkeley, etc., she compared the innovation in the USA, UK and China, invented “government triple helix “, science and technology field”, “triple helix field”, “triple helix twin” conception, with Prof. Henry Etzkowitz.

Also she summarized three kinds of triple helix models for regional innovation: “university-pushed model” in the US, “government-pulled model” in China and “corporate-led model” in some countries such as German, Sweden and South Korea. Since 1998, she has published 18 papers in English and 33 in Chinese, as well as two books, three translation books and three chapters for books in English and Chinese. She contributed to an Entrepreneurial University Special Issue for Science and Public Policy as a co-editor in January of 2009.

Before she settled in the USA, she has worked for the universities in China for over 20 years, for the IITH of LaSalle Innovation Park (Director, two years) and the ICEI of Complutense University (one year) in Spain, and also worked for Mid-University of Sweden for a book project (one year). Now still as the director of the International Institute of Triple Helix she commits herself to making more contribution to triple helix study, to find the dynamic mechanism of triple helix –how/why university, industry and government interact, as well as exploring the triple helix sustainable development with university, government and public actor, that is, “Yin triple helix”, excepting for the “Yang triple helix”.  Especially, she is trying to find ways to do comparison in innovation among Europe, China and the USA , focusing on  knowledge-based innovation and entrepreneurship. 
  




  
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