Title
A routine for measuring synergy in university–industry–government relations: mutual information as a Triple-Helix and Quadruple-Helix indicator
Abstract
Mutual information in three (or more) dimensions can be considered as a Triple-Helix indicator of possible synergy in university–industry–government relations. An open-source routine th4.exe makes the computation of this indicator interactively available at the internet, and thus applicable to large sets of data. Th4.exe computes all probabilistic entropies and mutual information in two, three, and, if available in the data, four dimensions among, for example, classes such as geographical addresses (cities, regions), technological codes (e.g. OECD’s NACE codes), and size categories; or, alternatively, among institutional addresses (academic, industrial, public sector) in document sets. The relations between the Triple-Helix indicator—as an indicator of synergy—and the Triple-Helix model that specifies the possibility of feedback by an overlay of communications, are also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1079-4
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Indicator,Triple Helix,Quadruple Helix,Software,Information theory,Mutual information,Mutual redundancy
Information theory,Data mining,Computer science,Variation of information,Multivariate mutual information,Mutual information,Public sector,Probabilistic logic,Pointwise mutual information,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
99
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.49
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loet Leydesdorff14987381.86
Han Woo Park276057.84
Balázs Lengyel3103.35