Leveraging Science for Innovation. Swedish policy for university-industry collaboration 1990-2005

The first chapter of the report is devoted to a review of the policy arguments for research and innovation policy and the academic arguments for and against the policy rationale. The chapter is concluded with a review and analysis of three of the most, to date, influential perspectives on policy (Systems of Innovation, Mode 2 and Triple Helix).

The following chapter contains a description and analysis of the Swedish case: The evolution towards the entrepreneurial university.

The third and final chapter presents conclusions and observations about possible futures.

Authors: Professor Merle Jacob, Oslo University, Norway, and Research Policy Institute at Lund University, Sweden, and Professor Luigi Orsenigo, University of Brescia and Cespri, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.