Analysing acceptability of E-rickshaw as a public transport innovation in Delhi: A responsible innovation perspective

Dr Rajbeer Singh, Shilpa Mishra and Krishna Tripathi

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021, vol. 170, issue C

Abstract: The Electrical (E)-rickshaw as of the many emerging technologies for e-mobility has witness critical and challenging issues like sustainability, accountability and responsibility while it becomes one of the new transportation means in India. The responsible innovation approach is interesting to analyse for acceptance and adoption of E-rickshaw as a legal vehicle technology for India. Paper also addresses whether the case of E-rickshaw as a component of the public transport in Delhi can be a responsible innovation. The interviews, focused group discussions, non-participant observations, and survey methods used to trace deliberation and participation processes for the emerging innovation. The findings suggest that reliability, safety, ownership, solidarity, competitiveness, affordability, last-mile connectivity, accessibility, happiness, gender equity, non-polluting, employability, social equity, comfortability, healthiness, profitability as universal and culture-specific values are embedded in this innovation. These values make this product socially, economically and environmentally sustainable in the region.

Keywords: Acceptability of E-rickshaw; Sustainability; Deliberation & participation; Responsible innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120908

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