TY - JOUR
T1 - Automotive regions in transition
T2 - Preparing for connected and automated vehicles
AU - Trippl, Michaela
AU - Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Simon
AU - Goracinova, Elena
AU - Wolfe, David A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/8/1
Y1 - 2021/8/1
N2 - The advent of ‘connected and automated vehicles’ (C/AV) is posing substantial transformation challenges for traditional automotive regions across the world. This article seeks to examine both conceptually and empirically how automotive regions reconfigure their industrial and support structures to promote new path development in the C/AV field. Drawing on recent conceptual advances at the intersection of evolutionary economic geography and innovation system studies, we develop an analytical framework that casts light on how regional preconditions provide platforms for asset modification that underpin different routes of transformation. We distinguish between a reorientation route and an upgrading route. The framework is applied to a comparative analysis of industrial path development and system reconfiguration towards C/AV in two automotive regions, namely Ontario (Canada) and the Austrian automotive triangle.
AB - The advent of ‘connected and automated vehicles’ (C/AV) is posing substantial transformation challenges for traditional automotive regions across the world. This article seeks to examine both conceptually and empirically how automotive regions reconfigure their industrial and support structures to promote new path development in the C/AV field. Drawing on recent conceptual advances at the intersection of evolutionary economic geography and innovation system studies, we develop an analytical framework that casts light on how regional preconditions provide platforms for asset modification that underpin different routes of transformation. We distinguish between a reorientation route and an upgrading route. The framework is applied to a comparative analysis of industrial path development and system reconfiguration towards C/AV in two automotive regions, namely Ontario (Canada) and the Austrian automotive triangle.
KW - Regional restructuring
KW - new path development
KW - asset modification
KW - innovation system reconfiguration
KW - connected and automated vehicles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099991798&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0308518X20987233
DO - 10.1177/0308518X20987233
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-518X
VL - 53
SP - 1158
EP - 1179
JO - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
JF - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
IS - 5
ER -