Abstract
The advent of ‘connected and automated vehicles’ (C/AV) is posing substantial transformation challenges on traditional automotive regions across the world. This paper 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.
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1-19 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Publication status | Published - 20 Apr 2020 |
Publication series
Series | Papers in Economic Geography and Innovation Studies (PEGIS) |
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Number | 02 |
Volume | 2020 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507026 Economic geography
Keywords
- Regional restructuring
- new path development
- asset modification
- innovation system reconfiguration
- connected and automated vehicles