Automobiles: a static technology, a ""wait-and-see"" industry ?

Jean-Jacques Chanaron ()
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Jean-Jacques Chanaron: GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENS LSH - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, EMSI - Ecole de Management des Systèmes d'Information - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management

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Abstract: This paper presents a global analysis of the key factors that could determine the scope of technological innovation in the automotive industry. It argues that most social, economic, industrial and technical features of this industry play against any radical innovation such as, for example, the electric vehicle. It emphasises the 'blocking' role of heavy capital investment, massive employment, infrastructure, consumers' constraints, etc. It contributes to the theoretical debate an technological inertia.

Keywords: automobile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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Published in International Journal of Technology Management, 1998, 16 (7), pp.595-630. ⟨10.1504/IJTM.1998.002686⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.1998.002686

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