New publications

Sotarauta, M. Kurikka, H., Kolehmainen, J. & Moisio, S. (2025). Place leadership in the geography of opportunities: survival of small industrial localities when industrial giants fall. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2479108

Sotarauta, M. (2025). A plethora of transformative innovation policy tensions. In Karlsen, J., Rypestøl, J.-O. & Trippl, M. (eds) Sustainable Regional Restructuring Insights from Economic Geography and Regional Innovation Studies. 27-41. Cheltenham; Edward Elgar Publishing.

Grillitsch, M. & Sotarauta, M. (2025). Agency and structure in regional development: in search of a social science research programme. European Planning Studies., 33(1), 104-123. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2024.2415125

Irving, J., Beer, A., Weller, S., Barnes, T., Onur, I., Ratcliffe, J., Bailey, D., Sotarauta, M. & Vij, A., (2025). A longitudinal dataset of retrenched automotive workers in Australia. Scientific Data, 12, 1113. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05424-8#citeas

Irving, J., Beer, A. & Sotarauta, M. (2025). A dataset on the community impacts of deindustrialisation and COVID-19 in Australia. Scientific Data, 12, 769. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05142-1



Fields of interest

Leadership, institutional entrepreneurship, institutions and innovation in city and regional development

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Markku Sotarauta was included in Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists list 2025 - both career-long and 2024


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