Can synergy in Triple Helix relations be quantified? A review of the development of the Triple Helix indicator

Triple Helix

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Indicator; Niche; Probabilistic entropy; Synergy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85192373180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21971927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40604-014-0004-z     Document Type: Article

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