A routine for measuring synergy in university-industry-government relations: Mutual information as a Triple-Helix and Quadruple-Helix indicator

Scientometrics

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-35

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b   Lengyel, Balazs ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^c Department of Economics   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Indicator; Information theory; Mutual information; Mutual redundancy; Quadruple Helix; Software; Triple Helix

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897597498     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1079-4     Document Type: Article

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