Institutional entrepreneurship: a new interconnectivity between government-university-enterprises in Wuhan future technology city of China

Using the theoretical framework of ‘institutional entrepreneurship’, this chapter aims to analyse the unique nature of government-university-enterprise link (i.e. Triple-Helix model) in the context of China. The case study of one institute – China University of Geosciences (CUG)’s Industry Technology Research Institute of Geo-Resources and Environment Co. Ltd. (IGE) and its incubated 21 enterprises serves as a window to look into different roles played by the government, university, academic entrepreneurs and industry to foster strategic knowledge creation and diffusion. The process of co-creating knowledge and commercialising research outputs as a part of knowledge spillover from university to enterprise is subsequently evaluated.