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A framework for understanding product market innovation paths – emergence of hybrid vehicles as an example

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  • Marc Dijk
  • Rene Kemp

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In the last few years, the automobile market witnessed a surprising rise in sales of a new type of engine: hybrid-electric engines. This is surprising, since the sector is typically averse to radical technological change of engines. The internal combustion engine has been around for more than 100 years after all. Economists have explained the dominance of internal combustion (IC) technology mostly from processes of learning and scale economies, which lead to lock-in of an established technology. Those theories have however, difficulties in explaining more radical technological transformations, which typically interrelate with changes in the social and regulatory context. In this article, we offer a framework for analysing the emergence of radical product innovation paths from a co-evolutionary perspective. The framework is applied for the case of emergence of electric and hybrid-electric engines on the automobile market after 1990.

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  • Marc Dijk & Rene Kemp, 2010. "A framework for understanding product market innovation paths – emergence of hybrid vehicles as an example," International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(1), pages 56-76.
  • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijatma:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:56-76
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    1. Marc Dijk & René Kemp & Pieter Valkering, 2013. "Incorporating social context and co-evolution in an innovation diffusion model—with an application to cleaner vehicles," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 295-329, April.

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