labourmarket institutions and regulations need to address these issues institutions comprise laws rules and established social and cultural practices that affect incentives and behaviour edquist such as patent laws capandtrade systems and regulations as elsewhere in the gnis there should be twoway relationships between these elements and the rest of the system domestic institutions and existing infrastructure set incentives and affect how the actors behave infrastructural or institutional rigidities that arise can hamper innovation such policies treat green economy activities as infant industries requiring appropriate support including regulatory requirements government procurement subsidies preferably performancerelated and timebound access to credit and possibly some level of trade protection as discussed in chapter vi