Innovation 48 FORESIGHT AND STI GOVERNANCE Vol. 13 No 1 2019 48 FORESIGHT AND STI GOVERNANCE Vol. 13 No 1 2019 Abstract T he innovation capacity of a system can be mea- sured as the synergy in interactions among its parts. Synergy can be considered as a conse- quence of negative entropies among three parts of the system. We analyze the development of synergy value in the Norwegian innovation system in terms of mutual information among geographical, sectorial, and size distributions of frms. We use three difer- ent techniques for the evaluation of the evolution of synergy over time: rescaled range analysis, DFT, and Кeywords: Triple Helix; knowledge base; innovations; synergy; cycles; regional innovation system; regions of Norway. geographical synergy decomposition. Te data was provided by Statistics Norway for all Norwegian frms registered in the database between 2002 and 2014. Te results suggest that the synergy at the level of both the country and its seven regions show non-chaotic oscil- latory behavior which resonates in a set of natural fre- quencies. Te fnding of a set of frequencies implies a complex Triple-Helix structure, composed of many elementary triple helices, which can be theorized in terms of a fractal TH manifold. Citation: Ivanova I., Strand Ø., Leydesdorf L. (2019) Te Synergy and Cycle Values in Regional Innovation Systems: Te Case of Norway. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 13, no 1, pp. 48–61. DOI: 10.17323/2500- 2597.2019.1.48.61 Research Fellow, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, inga.ivanova@hse.ru Inga Ivanova Professor, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), loet@leydesdorf.net Loet Leydesdorf University of Amsterdam, PO Box 15793, 1001 NG Amsterdam, Te Netherlands National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow 101000, Russian Federation Professor, Department of International Business, oivind.strand@ntnu.no Øivind Strand Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Ålesund, PO Box 1517, 6025 Aalesund, Norway Te Synergy and Cycle Values in Regional Innovation Systems: Te Case of Norway