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Recommendations Provide funds for collaborative innovation that include novel modes of resource allocation like lump sums or flexible frameworks, allowing adaption, failure and experimentation foster civil society engagement and make it an evaluation framework for learning support learning communities and infrastructure for collaborative innovation Raise awareness and promoting good practice examples of benefits and challenges…

Together with experts from innovation policy and innovation practice, RiConfigure held a highly participatory dialogue event in July. The aim of the event was to discuss how to make cross-sector innovation thrive and try to identify and build coalitions around quadruple helix ecosystems. Based on robust verbal and written discussions, the participants listed a number…

This report presents the lessons we have learned during the first twenty months of the RiConfigure Project. Regarding practice, the main lesson we have learned is that the theory of quadruple helix collaboration is quite different from the practice of quadruple helix collaborations. Once applied in practice, the theoretical idea of four helixes collaborating together…

Dr. Prof. Elias Carayannis is the father of the concept of quadruple helix and the need to involve civil society in the innovation process. The triple helix – industry, academia and the public sector – will always have too narrow a focus. It will not provide the robust solutions we need to to address the…

In this document you can read about the theoretical framework for the project

Read more about the methodology for the social labs in the RiConfigure project

In this video we explain the theoretical framework

Recommendations • Policy makers should strengthen appropriate funding mechanisms that assist Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in receiving appropriate rewards when entering QH collaborations (e.g.: social innovation funds; QH collaboration funds targeted for CSO participation). Actors of the fourth helix (‘civil society’) often lack the funding to enter into QH collaborations that provide innovation rewards in…