Navigating Risks in University Research: Integrating Triple-helix and Institutional Logics Perspectives

Abstract

This article integrates Triple-helix and institutional logics perspectives to diagnose how professional, market and state logics generate risks in university research, and how hybrid governance can mitigate them. Conceptually, it advances a cross-level risk analysis (individual, organizational, system) and a triple-temporal mitigation design that aligns short-term relational routines, mid-term interface infrastructures and long-term institutional and policy change. The synthesis extends existing work on selective coupling and institutional complexity by linking specific risk mechanisms to sequenced interventions. It further refines research on boundary organizations and intermediaries by positioning interface roles within system-level coordination, and clarifies how openness, sovereignty and mission pressures map across logics within responsible research and innovation and open-science agendas. Overall, the study offers a parsimonious and actionable framework for steering collaborative research under conditions of institutional plurality.