# Could the 'Spinner Innovation' and 'Triple Helix' Models Improve System Innovation?
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### Spinner Flow and Triple Helix Interactions  
To support all the actors in terms of their propensity to innovate, the Spinner works with the flow, a structured process for orienting innovation processes and measuring progress based on nine steps (Figure 3). The \"Flow\" includes several technological tools to help leaderships in terms of their innovation related decisions.  
Starting the flow requires identifying the main actors before integrating practices and technologies capable of structuring the innovation process and measuring the evolution of the knowledge intensive solutions provided. The TRL (Technology Readiness Level) scale, designed by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) serves to measure the progress in technological innovation, beginning at level 1, TRL1 and concluding in terms of complexity at level 9, TRL9, in the Spinner Innovation model.  
According to these steps, the practices and technologies work in conjunction during the development of knowledge intensive solutions. This situation results from integrating the actors and the fidgets. TRL 1 reflects \"The Knowledge GAP\", the knowledge needed when starting out structuring innovation processes.  
Next, the process needs to incorporate whatever the type of knowledge identified as a need, e.g., whether cultural, professional and/or technological. Then, TRL 3 incorporates  
Figure 3: The Spinner Knowledge Flow in Support of Triple Helix Model Interactions.  
certain technologies e.g., machine learning and with particular practices, such as mentoring in order to collaborate with TRL2 and TRL1. In addition, the knowledge identifiers in TRLs 1 and 2 require support from sources of private and/or public knowledge, TRLs 4 and 5.  
To continue with the flow, in TRL6, the system innovation actors provide knowledge-intensive solutions (KIS) for discussion and improvements. Testing these \"KIS\" takes place in TRL 7 for a specific period of time. Following the approval of these solutions, the next step involves \"Go to Market\" with TRL8 testing them with initial adopters. To finalize the innovation process, TRL9 collects feedbacks from the market and launches official sales. Whenever so necessary, the flow may repeat any TRL or do so at the end to establish different loops of learning.  
In addition, there might also be testing of another scale by the Spinner Innovation and/or Triple Helix models. For example, the TRL scale was developed with 7 levels in 1974 before expansion to 9 levels in the 1990s [56]. However, there is also the Innovation Readiness Level (IRL) scale studied by [57], which incorporates six \"Cs\" into the lifecycle of innovation processes: concept, component, completion, chasm, competition and changeover. Furthermore, in [58] the author proposed integrating the Technology Readiness Level and Innovation Readiness Level into a specific framework. This considers all the TRLs between IRL1 and IRL3 (TRL1-TRL9) with the subsequent three phases, from IRL4 to IRL6, designed to maintain the evolution of innovation. When considering the Spinner Innovation framework and considering the additional IRLs, we might feasibly integrate IRL4, IRL5 and IRL6 after TRL9 to support the sustainability of future innovation. In the near future, other models and frameworks, for example Open Innovation, StageGate and Design Thinking might also be susceptible for integration to support innovation development alongside the IRL and/or TRL scales.