Direction or mediation? Nexus’ role in technology adoption

Max Regenfelder and André P. Slowak

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 2011, vol. 5, issue 2/3, 142-158

Abstract: Despite a nowadays rich tradition in evolutionary socio-economic studies, historic Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) studies and sociological studies, we find a research gap in explaining how collaborative R&D consortia initiate technological change at the regulatory arena. We refer to those consortia as social groups. In the observed R&D project, firms established a new organisation as nexus between collaborative research and policymakers. Their aim is to shape both technology and selection environment. That nexus incorporates firms promoting two different competing technological trajectories; thus, its policy mandate is ambiguous.

Keywords: social construction of technology; nexus; standard setting; automotive innovation; collaborative R&D; research and development; innovation; technological change; regulation; policy making. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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