Innovative Development in a University Environment Based on the Triple Helix Concepts: A Systematic Literature Review

Integrating university, industry, and government can represent innovation development in a university environment based on the concepts of the Triple Helix. Thus, there needs to be more research that considers university innovation ecosystems, indicating an opportunity to improve their understanding and functioning. This article proposes a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to map the actions, actors, concepts and functioning of the innovation ecosystem that involves the university. The first step of the SLR was the search for articles from 2017 to 2022 containing the keywords: disruptive innovation, sustainability, and digital transformation, resulting in 27 selected articles. The research identified the roles and recommendations of each actor in the ecosystem and ways to develop it sustainably, focusing on actions to improve its current innovation strategy, contributing to the academic literature by providing initiatives in innovation ecosystems and synthesis of related concepts.