This article posits that there is no a priori reason that industrial upgrading and market expansion leads to greater social protections or better regulation. I ask three questions and attempt a conceptual framework for institutions and their broader spatial evolution. A firm’s regional risk...

Industrial policy and innovation policies need to be strongly revitalized and focused on LDC development. Given the concentration of several LDCs in forestry, fisheries, mining, agricultural commodities, and oil, the task of these revitalized industrial policies is to support locally relevant...

This paper is concerned with two questions: When and how does society at large (through State, intermediary organisations, labor unions, etc.) institute a set of supports to minimize schisms in the labor market?; How exactly do these schisms evolve in response to changing technical standards in...

Economic development theories and their learning frameworks differently address farms and firms. This article argues that the traditional double-standard of the primacy of manufacturing rests on a debatable stages model that under-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its...

Srinivas S. and Viljamaa K. Emergence of economic institutions: analysing the Third Role of universities in Turku, Finland, Regional Studies. How do universities become economic development institutions? The normative 'Third Role' in Europe refers to universities taking on explicit economic...

In the varieties of capitalism, welfare capitalism, and systems of innovation literatures, the university is a critical actor as public employer, trainer and provider of several public goods. However, there is relatively weak enquiry into the spatial and institutional characteristics of...

S<sc>rinivas</sc> S. and V<sc>iljamaa</sc> K. Emergence of economic institutions: analysing the Third Role of universities in Turku, Finland, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. How do universities become economic development institutions? The normative 'Third Role' in Europe refers to universities taking on explicit economic...