When Triple Helix Unravels:
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Cooperative research centers (CRCs) are a significant and growing “triple helix-based” vehicle for promoting cross sector collaboration, knowledge and technology transfer and ultimately innovation. Although there is a growing social science literature on these organizational structures, the management and “best practice” portion of this literature have tended to emphasize success stories and to neglect descriptions and analysis of CRC failures. Unfortunately, such a strategy is inferentially and practically flawed since it instructs the practitioner with advice about “what to do” but fails to advise him/her about “what not to do”. Given this background, we present four mini-cases of CRC that were successfully launched but subsequently experienced serious problems and ceased operation. Analysis of four “failure cases” identified environmental and center transition factors that appeared to contribute to a center closing operations. There also appeared to a tendency in such center for multiple problems to appear and through neglect magnify their effects. Implications for triple helix organizations are discussed.
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