ABSTRACT
Swedish industrial and technology policy has become more concepts-driven than ever before. This has especially been the case within the Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), and in particular with the “VINNVÄXT program,” a program that, in short, may be understood as a means to make policy based on the theories of innovation systems (IS), and not least on a variety of that discourse labeled triple helix (TH). As the VINNVÄXT program has been one of the core programs in Swedish industrial and technology policy during the first decade of the new millennium, it is – when analyzing this policy – important to have a reasonably good insight in the theoretical foundations for this policy.
