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THE TRIPLE HELIX ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER www.triplehelixassociation.org Hélice VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1 MARCH 2013 SPECIAL ISSUE ON BRAZIL EDITORIAL W ELCOME Spring Greetings! Articles presented result from the long- We as the Editors of Hélice encourage you term academic research by Brazilian to share your reflections which will help Towards the first days of Spring, we would scholars who have been engaged in Triple sustain and extend the innovative dialogue like to welcome you to the First Issue of Helix Studies for more than a decade. of Hélice. Volume Two of the Triple Helix These include (a) The Triple Helix Concept in Association Newsletter - Hélice. After a Brazil: Capture and Dissemination - Jose For further information, or for publishing year of success, Hélice. is now in its second Manoel Carvalho de Mello, (b) ANPROTEC: in Hélice, please contact Devrim Göktepe- volume. Promoting Innovative Enterprises - Jorge Luis Hultén at [email protected], or Nicolas Audy, Sheila Oliviera Pires, (c) Sheila Forbes at Sheila.forbes Distributed quarterly, Hélice reaches over Developing Brazilian Triple Helix Leadership - @strath.ac.uk. 1500 scholars, policy-makers, and Guilherme Ary Plonski, (d) Natura: An practitioners, and its outreach includes Innovative Company Leader in the Brazilian We wish you a pleasant and enjoyable public organizations, universities, and other Market of cosmetics, Fragrances and Toiletries spring season, and look forward to innovation agents. - Gilson Paulo Manfio, Leonardo Garnica, welcoming you to the Triple Helix XI Daniela Diogenes, (e) University and Conference in London We had received much interest and Patenting in Brazil - Ana Lucia Vitale requests for the publication of Special Torkomian, Marli Elizabeth Ritter doe Issues, giving a focus on Triple Helix Santos, and including Recent Publications studies in a specific national context. In by Thiango Renault, and Brazil: Facts and response to this, we are pleased to present Figures by Mariza Almeido. our first Special Issue focusing on Brazil. We also have a very thought-provoking The content has been coordinated by President’s Corner article on Learning from Professor Jose Manoel Carvalho de Mello, Brazil: Inspiration of Triple Helix Innovation, of the Universidade Federal Fluminense, by Henry Etzkowitz, the THA President. Rio de Janeiro, and Vice President of the Triple Helix Association. We are grateful Finally we would like to draw your Devrim Goktepe-Hulten and to Jose for his efforts in putting together attention to the update article by Helen Sheila Forbes this very interesting edition, which Lawton Smith on the forthcoming annual March 2013 presents a brief study of the main policies Triple Helix XI Conference to be held in for innovation in Brazil including the Triple London, 8-10 July 2013. Things are shaping Helix concept as a response to the need up nicely for what looks like another for facilitating relations between stimulating THA Conference! universities, public sector and companies. Page 2 Hélice - THA Newsletter CONTENTS Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2013 Editorial Board THA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2013 3 Editor in Chief An Update from London, UK Devrim Göktepe-Hulten Helen Lawton Smith [email protected] President’s Corner 4 Managing Editor Sheila Forbes Learning from Brazil: Inspiration of Triple Helix Innovation [email protected] Henry Etzkowitz Board Members TRIPLE HELIX - SPECIAL FOCUS ON BRAZIL Marcelo Amaral The Triple Helix Concept in Brazil: Capture and 9 [email protected] Dissemination Jose Manoel Carvalho de Mello James Dzisah [email protected] ANPROTEC: Promoting Innovative Enterprises 12 Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy and Sheila Oliveira Pires Loet Leydesdorff [email protected] Developing Brazilian Triple Helix Leadership 14 Guilherme Ary Plonski Jose Manoel Carvalho de Mello [email protected] Natura: An Innovative Company Leader in the 19 Marina Ranga Brazilian Market of Cosmetics, Fragrances and [email protected] Toiletries Gilson Paulo Manfio, Leonardo Garnica and Daniela Diogenes Alexander Uvarov [email protected] University and Patenting in Brazil 20 Ana Lucia Vitale Torkomian and Marli Elizabeth Ritter dos Santos Board Members (Ex-Officio) Brazil: Recent Publications 24 Thiago Renault Henry Etzkowitz [email protected] Brazil: Facts and Figures 27 Mariza Almeida Daniela Italia [email protected] Headquarters The Triple Helix Newsletter, Hélice, will be published quarterly - March, Triple Helix Secretariat June, September and December. Contributions, articles, news or Triple Helix Association announcements, should be sent to: Corso Giulio Cesare 4bis/b 10152 Turin Devrim Göktepe-Hultén Italy Editor in Chief [email protected] Contact Daniela Italia or THA Secretary General Sheila Forbes Managing Editor Email [email protected] [email protected] Website Deadline for inclusion in the June 2013 issue: 13 May 2013 www.triplehelixassociation.org Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2013 Page 3 Triple Helix XI Conference, London, UK 8 - 10 July 2013 Register online at: www.tha2013.org Come and join collective action! With How can public action drive a spectacular line-up of keynote speakers, PLENARY sessions, 8 innovation in the private sector, and what are the challenges to convened workshops, and over 50 parallel OPEN SESSIONS, the public procurement, as well as intellectual property conference will have a wealth of academic and policy/practitioner management and IPR policies? presentations. Take advantage of being in London through the exciting SOCIAL PROGRAMME, including a Thames River cruise Speakers and dinner, an event in the Grand Hall of Lincoln's Inn, and a visit Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford, to Tech City (hosted at Google Campus) to meet innovating and Chair of the Big Innovation Centre entrepreneurs. Professor Henry Etzkowitz, President of the Triple Helix Association, Stanford University The Triple Helix in a context of global change: Professor John Goodacre, Faculty of Health and Medicine, continuing, mutating or unravelling? Lancaster University Sergio Arzeni, Head, Local Economic and Employment and Never has the Triple Helix mission been more timely. Globally the Development Programme, OECD economy faces significant challenges - unemployment, low or no Dr Dimitri Corpakis, Head of Unit, Regional Dimension of growth, spiralling healthcare needs, rapidly emerging digital business Innovation, European Commission models, unsustainable changes to the environment. The need for Dr Jon Hague, Vice President - Open Innovation, Unilever universities and businesses to work together and take action Research and Development alongside governments is critical. The 2013 Conference will Dr Jackie Parkin, Vice President - Research and Development, integrate highly topical contributions on challenges in each of the GlaxoSmithKline three spheres of the triple helix: universities, industry, and Bill Janeway, author of ‘Doing Capitalism in the Innovation government, to address the key question: Economy’. How can the Triple Helix approach build ‘the enterprising state’ in which universities, businesses Confirmed Workshops and governments co-innovate to solve the global University entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial universities: the role of universities in the Triple Helix (organised by Circle, economic challenges? Lund University). Conference Themes The Triple Helix and Europe (organised by EU). How can global challenges to the digital sphere, healthcare, the Entrepreneurship and local development: Triple Helix natural environment and areas facing disruptive forces be influences (organised by OECD). turned into growth opportunities? How can the Triple Helix Location create a better mode of coordination to enhance The conference will be held at University of London locations, including Senate House, in historical Central London’s Bloomsbury productivity, output and innovation, and what are the area. challenges to universities, businesses and government? build innovative markets, places and networks, and what are the Organisers challenges to open innovation, demand and business models? Professor Birgitte Andersen, Director, Big Innovation Centre - build more innovation-friendly financial institutions, and what are The Work Foundation, and Lancaster University the challenges to the business of banking in driving innovation and Tim Barnes, CEO, UCL Advances, University College London entrepreneurship, especially in SMEs? Professor Helen Lawton Smith, Director, Centre for Innovation enhance universities as interactive partners in our innovation systems, and what are the challenges to the absorptive capacity of Management Research, Birkbeck, University of London academic knowledge within firms and by other users? enhance skills for innovation, and what are the challenges to Sponsors management and leadership skills for high growth firms? Circle, Lund University enhance place-based innovations, and what is the role of local SQW innovation systems and local key institutions to build and accelerate Knowledge Unlatched regional clusters? Regional Studies Association Page 4 PRESIDENT’S CORNER LEARNING FROM BRAZIL: INSPIRATION OF T RIPLE HELIX INNOVATION Henry Etzkowitz President Triple Helix Association Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR) Stanford University [email protected] INTRODUCTION civil society, the sea in which multiple sources of inspiration swim, Organizational