The Argentine wine industry: creating new spaces for coordination?

Abstract

This article compares and examines the institutional arrangements in the wine industry of three Argentine provinces and at the national level. It finds that the Triple Helix approach of university (research)–industry–government interaction is useful for understanding the institutional foundation for innovation, knowledge diffusion and economic success; however, it struggles to explain how different actors make sense of coordination and how the latter is achieved. The article demonstrates that the different institutional arrangements behind each region lead to different mechanisms for achieving coordination and the influence this has on the development and success of the industry.