Päivi Oinas
 Dr.Sc.(Econ.), Adjunct Professor

    • University Lecturer, 
    Geography  (Department of Geography and Geology)


paivi.oinas@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2576

+358 50 502 7083

Natura, yliopistonmäki

Turku


ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-3060

Areas of expertise
Innovation districts; Innovation systems in space; Cluster transformation; Geography of the firm; Management geography; Corporate responsibility; Entrepreneurship and institutional change; Socio-spatial embeddedness of economic action; Internationalisation of architecture; Methodology in economic geography

Biography





Partner Investigator, "Rebuilding Troubled Regions", Australian Research Council, 2021-2023; Research Director, Dept of Geography 2019-2020; Guest lecturer, University of Cologne 2019; Visiting scholar, Technical University of Berlin 2019; Project leader, TSE 2019; Research Director, CCR 2017 - 2018;
Professor, Economic Geography, TSE 2007-2017. Previously researcher and
visiting scholar (Helsinki School of Economics; University of Uppsala 1988–89; University
of Stanford/SCANCOR 1993; UNC-North Carolina 1993; UC- Berkeley 1994; Erasmus
Rotterdam 1995​–2006).

Docent: Aalto University School of Business (Geography of
the firm).

Docent: Turku School of Economics (Economic Geography).



Degrees: Dr.Sc.(Econ.);
Lic.Sc.(Econ.);  M.Sc.(Econ.), Helsinki
School of Economics (now Aalto University).



Selected activities:



Series
Advisory Editor, Springer Economic Geography Series, 2018 – .



Member, Committee of Research
and Doctoral Studies (TuJa), Turku School of Economics, August 2012 – July 2017.



Member, Board of the Doctoral
Programme of TSE, August 2012 – July 2017.



Member, OpenUTU steering
group, September 2015 – 2018.



Editorial Advisory Board Member,
European Journal of Innovation Management, 2015–2017.



Editor, Regional Studies
(2008–2013)



Book Review Editor, Regional
Studies (2007–2013)



Vice-Chair (2009–2011) and
Chair (2011–2014), International Geographical Union (IGU) National Committee



Reviewer for leading journals
in economic geography and related disciplines



Steering
Committee Member, IGU Commission on the Organization of Industrial Space
(1992–1996; 1997–2001)​

Research

Innovation districts in emerging and advanced
economies (IDeaS project; TSP as innovation laboratory project); MNE strategies and changing power balances in the
global economy (book project); research collaborations on the themes of management
geography; innovation systems in space; cluster transformation; start-up
entrepreneurship and institutional change (e.g., Traveling start-up scene project).



Teaching

M.Sc. and Dr.Sc. supervision in Economic Geography.
Doctoral candidates: Janne Lindstedt, Susanna Kivelä, Kari Mäkeläinen, Lucía
Gomez, Jarmo Nikander, Sidath Alwis; Completed: Maria Höyssä (TSE 2013), Ewald
Kibler (TSE 2012), Caterina Marchionni (co-supervisor, Erasmus 2005), Riitta
Kosonen (HSE 2002).



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