Paivi Oinas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paivi Oinas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paivi |
| FAMILY NAME | Oinas |
| SIGNATURE | OINAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5521-3060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Innovation districts as strategic urban projects: The emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation
This paper contributes to the emerging research on innovation districts (IDs) by conceptualizing them as strategic urban projects. IDs connect innovative activities to their spatial foundations and thus provide a territorial framework for strategic spatial planning efforts. The extant literature on IDs, focusing mainly on ID characteristics and placemaking, has failed to acknowledge that ID development requires an integrated planning approach to …
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering
Multiple theories of the same phenomenon abound in many interdisciplinary research areas, but it is often unclear how the theories relate, and there are no clear guidelines for dealing with this plurality. The history of research on spatial industrial clustering is a case in point. We identify a number of solutions to the problem of multiple theoretical accounts proposed in this literature. We label them definitional, taxonomic, integrative, and …
Undercurrents in the world economy: Evolving global investment flows in the South
Foreign direct investment (FDI) to the global South has increased, but very little research has gone into analysing the diverse FDI flows between unequally related groups of countries. This paper contributes by investigating (a) the distribution of global FDI into and between semi‐peripheral and peripheral countries in the global South (2006–2014), and (b) the country location factors of FDI in these two regions. We introduce a distinction betwee…
Traveling planning concepts revisited: How they land and why it matters
What constitutes the “landing” of “traveling planning concepts” (TPCs) in new places remains conceptually elusive in the literature. To explore this process, this paper proposes a multidimensional conceptual framework that identifies key recurring activities during landing. The framework is applied to a qualitative analysis of the ongoing development of an innovation district in the rising yet unequal city of Medellín. The analysis reveals a proc…
Circuits of architecture and urban planning: Professional ethos and the internationalization of small architectural offices
Although the production of the built environment is increasingly globalized, and architecture and urban planning (AUP) professionals are known to be the key carriers of mobile ideas, the internationalization of small owner-centred architectural offices has gained little academic attention, compared to the large consultancies that dominate the global market. We bring together the literature on the circuits of urban planning ideas, the internationa…
Regional industrial transformations in the interconnected global economy
This article reviews recent research on regional transformation and observes that though it is increasingly acknowledged that regions depend on external connections, not much systematic analysis has gone to analysing regions as hosts of economic nodes that are differently positioned in global industrial systems. An outline of a threefold typology of core, intermediate and peripheral nodes is proposed. It is then discussed how the contributions to…
How to Make Progress in Theories of Spatial Clustering: A Case Study of Malmberg and Maskell's Emerging Theory
Many social science disciplines suffer from a tradition of tolerating vaguely formulated theoretical claims. The authors report a case study of the explanatory claims made in an emerging knowledge-based theory of clusters proposed by the economic geographers Malmberg and Maskell. In doing so they reinterpret and reconstruct Malmberg and Maskells's theory by applying what is called the 'contrastive approach' to explanation from contemporary philos…
Understanding the Firm: Spatial and Organizational Dimensions
Understanding The Firm: Spatial And Organizational Dimensions
Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. They come in a seemingly infinite variety - from transnationals to small firm, from corporations to branch plants, to subsidiaries and joint ventures, from subcontractors to franchisees, from sole proprietorships to partnerships, from manufacturers to service providers and retailers. For the most part we view them as the creators, destroyers, and repositories of jobs - the creators and destroyers of…
Essay Symposium: Scientific Realism, Geography and Economics
The Narrow Notion of Realism in Human Geography
The paper provides an analysis of the reception of realism in human geography. Gaps are identified between geographers' realism and realism as conceived by philosophers of science. The paper first outlines philosophers' abstract or thin 'CoreRealism' in simple ontological, semantic, and episte- mological terms. It then shows how human geographers' 'GeoRealism' has concretised and thickened this core notion by incorporating a specific metaphysics …
The Evolution of Technologies in Time and Space: From National and Regional to Spatial Innovation Systems
Complementing existing approaches on national innovation systems (NISs) and regional innovation systems (RISs), the proposed spatial innovation systems (SISs) approach incorporates a focus on the path-dependent evolution of specific technologies as components of technological systems and the intermingling of their technological paths among various locations through time. SISs utilize spatial divisions of labor among several specialized RISs, poss…
Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: Towards a research agenda
Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: Towards a research agenda
(2002). Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: towards a research agenda. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 65-76
Activity-specificity in organizational learning: Implications for analysing the role of proximity
Voices and silences: The problem of access to embeddedness
On the socio-spatial embeddedness of business firms
Zur sozialraumlichen ?Einbettung von Unternehmen Anlafi dieses Beitrages ist der in der wirtschaftsgeographischen Literatur deudich erkennbare Bedarf, Beziehungen von Unternehmen zu ihrer lokalen und regionalen Umwelt besser verstehen und einordnen zu konnen, um dadurch fundierte Kenntnisse iiber die entscheidenden Krafte regionaler Entwicklungsprozesse zu erhalten. Im Hinblick auf dieses Ziel wird das gegenwartig populare Konzept der ?embeddedne…
"Discussion of "Regional Advantage: "Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128" By AnnaLee Saxenian
(1995). Discussion of Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. Economic Geography: Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 199-207
Voices and silences: The problem of access to embeddedness
Activity-specificity in organizational learning: Implications for analysing the role of proximity
Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: Towards a research agenda
(2002). Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: towards a research agenda. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 65-76
The Narrow Notion of Realism in Human Geography
The paper provides an analysis of the reception of realism in human geography. Gaps are identified between geographers' realism and realism as conceived by philosophers of science. The paper first outlines philosophers' abstract or thin 'CoreRealism' in simple ontological, semantic, and episte- mological terms. It then shows how human geographers' 'GeoRealism' has concretised and thickened this core notion by incorporating a specific metaphysics …
Regional industrial transformations in the interconnected global economy
This article reviews recent research on regional transformation and observes that though it is increasingly acknowledged that regions depend on external connections, not much systematic analysis has gone to analysing regions as hosts of economic nodes that are differently positioned in global industrial systems. An outline of a threefold typology of core, intermediate and peripheral nodes is proposed. It is then discussed how the contributions to…
Traveling planning concepts revisited: How they land and why it matters
What constitutes the “landing” of “traveling planning concepts” (TPCs) in new places remains conceptually elusive in the literature. To explore this process, this paper proposes a multidimensional conceptual framework that identifies key recurring activities during landing. The framework is applied to a qualitative analysis of the ongoing development of an innovation district in the rising yet unequal city of Medellín. The analysis reveals a proc…
"Discussion of "Regional Advantage: "Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128" By AnnaLee Saxenian
(1995). Discussion of Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. Economic Geography: Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 199-207
How to Make Progress in Theories of Spatial Clustering: A Case Study of Malmberg and Maskell's Emerging Theory
Many social science disciplines suffer from a tradition of tolerating vaguely formulated theoretical claims. The authors report a case study of the explanatory claims made in an emerging knowledge-based theory of clusters proposed by the economic geographers Malmberg and Maskell. In doing so they reinterpret and reconstruct Malmberg and Maskells's theory by applying what is called the 'contrastive approach' to explanation from contemporary philos…
Essay Symposium: Scientific Realism, Geography and Economics
"Discussion of "Regional Advantage: "Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128" By AnnaLee Saxenian
(1995). Discussion of Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. Economic Geography: Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 199-207
On the socio-spatial embeddedness of business firms
Zur sozialraumlichen ?Einbettung von Unternehmen Anlafi dieses Beitrages ist der in der wirtschaftsgeographischen Literatur deudich erkennbare Bedarf, Beziehungen von Unternehmen zu ihrer lokalen und regionalen Umwelt besser verstehen und einordnen zu konnen, um dadurch fundierte Kenntnisse iiber die entscheidenden Krafte regionaler Entwicklungsprozesse zu erhalten. Im Hinblick auf dieses Ziel wird das gegenwartig populare Konzept der ?embeddedne…
Activity-specificity in organizational learning: Implications for analysing the role of proximity
Voices and silences: The problem of access to embeddedness
The Evolution of Technologies in Time and Space: From National and Regional to Spatial Innovation Systems
Complementing existing approaches on national innovation systems (NISs) and regional innovation systems (RISs), the proposed spatial innovation systems (SISs) approach incorporates a focus on the path-dependent evolution of specific technologies as components of technological systems and the intermingling of their technological paths among various locations through time. SISs utilize spatial divisions of labor among several specialized RISs, poss…
Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: Towards a research agenda
Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: Towards a research agenda
(2002). Competition and collaboration in interconnected places: towards a research agenda. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 65-76
Essay Symposium: Scientific Realism, Geography and Economics
The Narrow Notion of Realism in Human Geography
The paper provides an analysis of the reception of realism in human geography. Gaps are identified between geographers' realism and realism as conceived by philosophers of science. The paper first outlines philosophers' abstract or thin 'CoreRealism' in simple ontological, semantic, and episte- mological terms. It then shows how human geographers' 'GeoRealism' has concretised and thickened this core notion by incorporating a specific metaphysics …
Understanding The Firm: Spatial And Organizational Dimensions
Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. They come in a seemingly infinite variety - from transnationals to small firm, from corporations to branch plants, to subsidiaries and joint ventures, from subcontractors to franchisees, from sole proprietorships to partnerships, from manufacturers to service providers and retailers. For the most part we view them as the creators, destroyers, and repositories of jobs - the creators and destroyers of…
Understanding the Firm: Spatial and Organizational Dimensions
How to Make Progress in Theories of Spatial Clustering: A Case Study of Malmberg and Maskell's Emerging Theory
Many social science disciplines suffer from a tradition of tolerating vaguely formulated theoretical claims. The authors report a case study of the explanatory claims made in an emerging knowledge-based theory of clusters proposed by the economic geographers Malmberg and Maskell. In doing so they reinterpret and reconstruct Malmberg and Maskells's theory by applying what is called the 'contrastive approach' to explanation from contemporary philos…
Regional industrial transformations in the interconnected global economy
This article reviews recent research on regional transformation and observes that though it is increasingly acknowledged that regions depend on external connections, not much systematic analysis has gone to analysing regions as hosts of economic nodes that are differently positioned in global industrial systems. An outline of a threefold typology of core, intermediate and peripheral nodes is proposed. It is then discussed how the contributions to…
Undercurrents in the world economy: Evolving global investment flows in the South
Foreign direct investment (FDI) to the global South has increased, but very little research has gone into analysing the diverse FDI flows between unequally related groups of countries. This paper contributes by investigating (a) the distribution of global FDI into and between semi‐peripheral and peripheral countries in the global South (2006–2014), and (b) the country location factors of FDI in these two regions. We introduce a distinction betwee…
Traveling planning concepts revisited: How they land and why it matters
What constitutes the “landing” of “traveling planning concepts” (TPCs) in new places remains conceptually elusive in the literature. To explore this process, this paper proposes a multidimensional conceptual framework that identifies key recurring activities during landing. The framework is applied to a qualitative analysis of the ongoing development of an innovation district in the rising yet unequal city of Medellín. The analysis reveals a proc…
Circuits of architecture and urban planning: Professional ethos and the internationalization of small architectural offices
Although the production of the built environment is increasingly globalized, and architecture and urban planning (AUP) professionals are known to be the key carriers of mobile ideas, the internationalization of small owner-centred architectural offices has gained little academic attention, compared to the large consultancies that dominate the global market. We bring together the literature on the circuits of urban planning ideas, the internationa…
The multiple-theories problem: The case of spatial industrial clustering
Multiple theories of the same phenomenon abound in many interdisciplinary research areas, but it is often unclear how the theories relate, and there are no clear guidelines for dealing with this plurality. The history of research on spatial industrial clustering is a case in point. We identify a number of solutions to the problem of multiple theoretical accounts proposed in this literature. We label them definitional, taxonomic, integrative, and …
Innovation districts as strategic urban projects: The emergence of strategic spatial planning for urban innovation
This paper contributes to the emerging research on innovation districts (IDs) by conceptualizing them as strategic urban projects. IDs connect innovative activities to their spatial foundations and thus provide a territorial framework for strategic spatial planning efforts. The extant literature on IDs, focusing mainly on ID characteristics and placemaking, has failed to acknowledge that ID development requires an integrated planning approach to …
Sociology (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Regional Development and Policy (5 works)