Automotive regions in transition: preparing for connected and automated vehicles

Michaela Trippl, Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Elena Goracinova, David A. Wolfe

Publications: Working paper

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1-19
Number of pages19
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2020

Publication series

SeriesPapers in Economic Geography and Innovation Studies (PEGIS)
Number02
Volume2020

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 507026 Economic geography

Keywords

  • Regional restructuring
  • new path development
  • asset modification
  • innovation system reconfiguration
  • connected and automated vehicles

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