On the afternoon of April 16, 2025, Professor Wei Ha, Associate Professor with Tenure and Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Peking University, visited the "BFSU Global Education Forum" to deliver an academic lecture at the Graduate School of Education, BFSU. Titled "The Triple Helix Model of China's Government-Industry-University-Research Collaborative Innovation and Its Multiple Evolutionary Paths," the lecture was presided over by Professor Yuan Dayong, Executive Dean of GSE, BFSU.
During the lecture, Professor Ha systematically expounded on the domestic development path of the Triple Helix theory. Based on the interactive framework of university-industry-government, he explored seven collaborative states among the main bodies of the Triple Helix and their dynamic evolution models. Through empirical analyses of six regional innovation highlands in China, he revealed the diversity and complexity of government-industry-university-research collaboration models. The lecture deeply discussed the multiple evolutionary paths of China's characteristic collaborative innovation system from four dimensions: theoretical origin, model construction, case study, and development prospect, providing theoretical support and practical guidance for the construction of regional innovation highlands.
In the discussion and exchange session, faculty and students actively asked questions. Professor Ha had an in-depth exchange with the on-site audience on issues related to industrial structure transformation and upgrading in some regions of China, enabling college faculty and students to gain a clearer understanding of the multiple evolutionary paths of the Triple Helix model and providing new ideas for future research and teaching.
Professor Ha has successively obtained double bachelor's degrees in economics and political science from Peking University, a master's degree in economics of education from Peking University, and a doctoral degree in public policy from Harvard University. He currently serves as Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Peking University, a member of the Academic Committee, a member of the Academic Development Advisory Committee of the China Higher Education Society, Associate Editor of the SSCI journal International Journal of Education Development, and a committee member of the editorial board of the SSCI journal Education Finance and Policy.
