This study explores how university-industry-government (U-I-G) cooperation fosters sustainable innovation in the context of Estonia’s post-industrial Ida-Viru region—a historically oil shale–dependent area undergoing a complex sustainability transition. Drawing on the multi-actor collaboration frameworks, which integrates both innovation and sustainability perspectives, this we study how collaborative efforts across institutional boundaries can enhance socio-technical change in peripheral […]
COVID-19 has shown how fragile our societies and economies are. Supply chains have particularly been affected. We all had to learn again that the basic supply of some goods is not as crisis-proof as we thought. Moreover, the strong division of labour and the concentration on a few companies in certain areas present considerable weaknesses […]