Regional Innovation

1. Regional Innovation
MBA
Session 2:
Triple Helix of University , Government and
Industry & Regional Innovation Strategies

2. Outline of the Session
Regional Innovation
Session 2 - Triple Helix of University , Government and Industry & Regional Innovation Strategies
Triple Helix
University (Research & Development)
Government (Funding & Nudging Institute)
Industries ( Businesses – SMEs, Large Enterprises, Start-ups
Regional Innovation Strategy: Local Cases
ASAN Xidmət,
E-Governance
Innovation Labs (I-Labs): Characteristics
Regional Innovation Strategies & System
Main Characteristics of Regional Innovation Strategies
Contemporary Tendency In Regional Innovation Strategies
Possible Results & Outcomes of Regional Innovation Strategies
Ideal Regional Innovation Systems & Advance Regional Innovation Strategies

3. Triple Helix
Enterprises gain competitive advantage taking the most
of their closest resources.
A mixture of close competition with collaboration
generate an environment where firms can growth being
able to compete in global markets
This performance of the industrial tissue requires a
strong innovation system with fluent relations among
its members (triple helix)
 Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) encourages the
formation of networks, thin relationships between the
public sector, the research community and the
business tissue (Triple Helix)

5. Triple Helix Approach
• A good, working relationship between the three partners of the triple
helix can lead to a productive research environment, and enhance
innovation and economic development in a region.
• “the need to balance the intellectual independence of the scientist with
the industrial appetite for commercial opportunity tempers the partners
in the triple helix.” (Lowe, 1982: 239)
• Governments are offering incentives, on the one hand, and pressing academic
institutions, on the other, to go beyond performing the traditional functions of
cultural memory, education and research, and make a more direct contribution
to "wealth creation" (HMSO 1993).

6. Triple Helix Approach

8. Regional Innovation Strategy
(Local Services in Azerbaijan)
ASAN Xidmət Case &
E- Governance Case

11. Innovation Labs

12. Characteristics of Innovation Labs (I-Labs)
• Pursuit of new ideas, products, and services
• Fast-track new products, understand market trends, and develop solutions for
customers / citizens.
Agile Start-ups intends to disrupt or complement the overall company
• Creation of new ideas, executing them, and iterating until the idea is fully adapted
or integrated into the business.
• Market research, or keep abreast of potential disruptors in the field
Inject a fresh outlook into an organization / entity

13. Amazon Lab126
• Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and
development company that designs and
engineers high-profile consumer electronic
devices like the Kindle family of products.
• Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of
Amazon.com.
Examples of Innovation Labs
Mission: “To make available in less than 60 seconds every book,
ever written, in any language, in print our out of print; and
bring the same ease-of-use, deep integration and superior
selection of content to movies, TV shows, music, magazines,
apps, games, and more.”

14. Google X
• Google X is a semi-secret facility
dedicated to making major
technological advancements.
• Work at the lab is overseen by Sergey
Brin, one of Google's co-founders, while
scientist and entrepreneur Astro Teller
directs day-to-day activities.
• Aim to improve technologies by a factor
of 10, and to develop "science fiction-
sounding solutions”.
Examples of Innovation Labs

16. Regional Innovation Strategies
• RIS projects aimed to support regions to develop regional innovation strategies
that would enhance regional innovation and competitiveness through optimizing
innovation policies and infrastructure

17. Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS)
• Regional Innovation Strategies are powerful instruments to develop regional
economic systems and the best model to ensure a sustainable competitive
growth
• The clarity of the objectives defined, the long term scope and the consensus
among participants ensure a sustainable growth model based on knowledge.

19. Main Characteristics of Regional Innovation
Strategies

20. Contemporary Tendency In Regional Innovation
Strategies

21. Possible Results & Outcomes of Regional
Innovation Strategies
• Consensus about the path followed to gain the regional competitive advantage
• Enterprises more involved in regional innovation system.
• Strengthening of regional technology offer
• Levels of R&D expenditures and personnel employed grew.
• Development of a working method based on collaboration and networking relations
• Improved capacity of regional firms to assimilate research results through collaboration
with research agents
Fist attempt to introduce “innovation culture” and “innovation awareness” not only among
regional system but society itself.

22. Ideal Regional Innovation Systems &Advance
Regional Innovation Strategies