ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on and attempts to make sense of recent developments of the relevance of the Triple Helix to university industry government relations and examines their impact on economic development in a national and regional context. Sense making seeks to structure the unknown by placing policy formulation into a frame of reference using the theories of policy networks and policy communities, thus allowing one to ‘comprehend, understand, explain, attribute, extrapolate and predict’ (Starbuck and Milliken 1988: 51), in this case national examples of economic and innovation development.
