Liyanage Shantha Indrajith Hikkaduwa, Netswera Fulu Godfrey
Botho University, Gaborone, Botswana.
Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
J Knowl Econ. 2022;13(2):1126-1156. doi: 10.1007/s13132-021-00769-y. Epub 2021 Mar 4.
Most of the knowledge-based economies (KBEs) operate in a neoclassical economic model that does not recognize the importance of natural resources and sustainability beyond the market forces. In contrast, KBEs that rely on endogenous factors harmonize with the enlightened anthropocentrism for sustainable development with scientific and technical abilities to design the ecological system for infusing human values into nature. For example, the Quintuple Helix Model of Innovation. In this exploratory research, it was found that the conventional structure of universities in Botswana is unable to produce glocal green knowledge and innovation in their mainstream knowledge production process due to bureaucratism, rationalism, myths and ceremonies, isomorphism, and legitimacy whereas institutional logics and agency of social actors support for Paris Climate Agreement and 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hence, the Quintuple Helix Model with Mode 3-Knowledge production is used to redesign universities' conventional structures. This study perused two sources of data, document analysis, and interviews. Data collected from documents were analyzed by axial coding. After that, interview data from five internal stakeholders were collected based on priori codes, themes, and concepts developed with document analysis. They were thematically analyzed for triangulation. Finally, the theory was developed by induction underpinning with interpretive philosophy when redesigning universities' conventional structure. The proposed model designed is called "Green University System" to facilitate the production of glocal green knowledge and innovation for sustainable development with Mode 3 and Quintuple Helix model of innovation.
大多数知识型经济体（KBEs）运行于新古典主义经济模式之中，这种模式没有认识到自然资源的重要性以及市场力量之外的可持续性。相比之下，依赖内生因素的知识型经济体与开明的人类中心主义相协调，以实现可持续发展，凭借科学技术能力来设计生态系统，将人类价值观融入自然。例如，创新的五元螺旋模型。在这项探索性研究中发现，由于官僚主义、理性主义、神话与仪式、同构性和合法性，博茨瓦纳大学的传统结构在其主流知识生产过程中无法产生全球本土化的绿色知识和创新，而社会行为者的制度逻辑和能动性支持《巴黎气候协定》和17个可持续发展目标（SDGs）。因此，采用三元知识生产模式的五元螺旋模型被用于重新设计大学的传统结构。本研究研读了两种数据来源，即文献分析和访谈。通过轴心编码对从文献中收集的数据进行分析。之后，根据通过文献分析得出的先验代码、主题和概念，收集了来自五位内部利益相关者的访谈数据。对这些数据进行主题分析以进行三角验证。最后，在重新设计大学传统结构时，以解释性哲学为基础，通过归纳法发展出理论。所设计的模型被称为“绿色大学系统”，以借助三元创新模式和五元螺旋创新模型促进全球本土化绿色知识的生产和可持续发展的创新。
