This paper explores how university-based research is utilised via user driven competence centres. Those centres are truly “Triple Helix born” since they bring together academic and business research(ers) in structures co-funded with public money with the explicit mission engage in user...

The emergence of a new mode of knowledge production, the formation of a 'Triple Helix' of university-industry-government, and the advent of the academic entrepreneur - all these different developments point, in one way or another, to the increased attention that is being paid to the economic...