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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
76
Citations
24980
World Ranking
205
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award

Overview

Elias G. Carayannis is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on business, management, and accounting, with a significant number of publications in the subfield of management of technology and innovation.

The scientist's recent work includes studies published in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. Notable papers include:

  • The Futures of Europe: Society 5.0 and Industry 5.0 as Driving Forces of Future Universities (2022, Journal of the Knowledge Economy)
  • Smart Environments and Techno-centric and Human-Centric Innovations for Industry and Society 5.0: A Quintuple Helix Innovation System View Towards Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive Solutions (2021, Journal of the Knowledge Economy)
  • Helix Trilogy: the Triple, Quadruple, and Quintuple Innovation Helices from a Theory, Policy, and Practice Set of Perspectives (2021, Journal of the Knowledge Economy)
  • Democracy of Climate and Climate for Democracy: the Evolution of Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Innovation Systems (2021, Journal of the Knowledge Economy)

Co-authorship is a key feature of their research approach. Frequent collaborators include Evangelos Grigoroudis, John Draper, João J. Ferreira, Fernando A. F. Ferreira, and David F. J. Campbell.

Publications by Elias G. Carayannis have appeared most frequently in these venues:

  • Journal of the Knowledge Economy (24 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (19 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (3 publications)
  • Technovation (2 publications)
  • Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (1 publication)

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Innovation Policy and R&D

In addition to articles, Elias G. Carayannis has authored a book titled Culture, Innovation, and Growth Dynamics, published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

Best Publications

  • 'Mode 3' and 'Quadruple Helix': toward a 21st century fractal innovation ecosystem

    Elias G. Carayannis;David F.J. Campbell

  • The Quintuple Helix innovation model: global warming as a challenge and driver for innovation

    Elias G Carayannis;Thorsten D Barth;David F J Campbell;David F J Campbell

  • Triple Helix, Quadruple Helix and Quintuple Helix and How Do Knowledge, Innovation and the Environment Relate To Each Other?: A Proposed Framework for a Trans-disciplinary Analysis of Sustainable Development and Social Ecology

    Elias G. Carayannis;David F.J. Campbell

  • Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems

    Elias G. Carayannis;David F. J. Campbell

  • The Futures of Europe: Society 5.0 and Industry 5.0 as Driving Forces of Future Universities

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  • High-technology spin-offs from government R&D laboratories and research universities

    Elias G. Carayannis;Everett M. Rogers;Kazuo Kurihara;Marcel M. Allbritton

  • The Quadruple/Quintuple Innovation Helixes and Smart Specialisation Strategies for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Europe and Beyond

    Elias G. Carayannis;Ruslan Rakhmatullin

  • The ecosystem as helix: an exploratory theory‐building study of regional co‐opetitive entrepreneurial ecosystems as Quadruple/Quintuple Helix Innovation Models

    Elias G. Carayannis;Evangelos Grigoroudis;David F. J. Campbell;David F. J. Campbell;Dirk Meissner

  • Business Model Innovation as Lever of Organizational Sustainability

    Elias G. Carayannis;Stavros Sindakis;Christian Walter

  • Quadruple Innovation Helix and Smart Specialization: Knowledge Production and National Competitiveness

    Elias Carayannis;Evangelos Grigoroudis

  • On the path towards open innovation: assessing the role of knowledge management capability and environmental dynamism in SMEs

    Isabel Martinez-Conesa;Pedro Soto-Acosta;Elias George Carayannis

  • Technological learning for entrepreneurial development (TL4ED) in the knowledge economy (KE): Case studies and lessons learned

    Elias G. Carayannis;Denisa Popescu;Caroline Sipp;McDonald Stewart

  • Leveraging knowledge, learning, and innovation in forming strategic government–university–industry (GUI) R&D partnerships in the US, Germany, and France

    Elias G Carayannis;Jeffrey Alexander;Anthony Ioannidis

  • The effect of social networking sites and absorptive capacity on SMES’ innovation performance

    Veronica Scuotto;Manlio Del Giudice;Elias G. Carayannis

  • Architecting gloCal (global–local), real-virtual incubator networks (G-RVINs) as catalysts and accelerators of entrepreneurship in transitioning and developing economies: lessons learned and best practices from current development and business incubation practices

    Elias G. Carayannis;Maximilian von Zedtwitz

  • Open Innovation Diplomacy and a 21st Century Fractal Research, Education and Innovation (FREIE) Ecosystem: Building on the Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Innovation Concepts and the “Mode 3” Knowledge Production System

    Elias G. Carayannis;David F. J. Campbell;David F. J. Campbell

  • Fostering synergies between information technology and managerial and organizational cognition: the role of knowledge management

    Elias G Carayannis

  • Measuring firm innovativeness: towards a composite innovation index built on firm innovative posture, propensity and performance attributes

    Elias G. Carayannis;Mike Provance

  • Profiling a methodology for economic growth and convergence: learning from the EU e-procurement experience for central and eastern European countries

    Elias G. Carayannis;Denisa Popescu

  • Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems

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  • Knowledge creation, diffusion, and use in innovation networks and knowledge clusters : a comparative systems approach across the United States, Europe, and Asia

    Elias G. Carayannis;David F. J. Campbell

  • Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems: 21st-Century Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Development

    Elias G. Carayannis;David F. J. Campbell

Frequent Co-Authors

David F. J. Campbell
David F. J. Campbell Danube University Krems
Manlio Del Giudice
Manlio Del Giudice Link Campus University
Evangelos Grigoroudis
Evangelos Grigoroudis Technical University of Crete
João J. Ferreira
João J. Ferreira University of Beira Interior
Fernando Ferreira
Fernando Ferreira ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon
Dirk Meissner
Dirk Meissner National Research University Higher School of Economics
Veronica Scuotto
Veronica Scuotto University of Naples Federico II
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Pedro Soto-Acosta University of Murcia
Everett M. Rogers
Everett M. Rogers University of New Mexico
Gabriele Santoro
Gabriele Santoro University of Turin

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