The paper shows how intermittency behavior of type-II can arise from the coupling of two one-dimensional maps, each exhibiting type-III intermittency. This change in dynamics occurs through the replacement of a subcritical period-doubling bifurcation in the individual map by a subcritical Hopf bifurcation in the coupled system. A variety of different parameter combinations are considered, and the statistics for the distribution of laminar phases is worked out. The results comply well with

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... tical predictions. Provided that the reinjection process is reasonably uniform in two dimensions, the transition to type-II intermittency leads directly to higher order chaos. Hence, this transition represents a universal route to hyperchaos.