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Automotive regions in transition: preparing for connected and automated vehicles

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

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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.

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  • Michaela Trippl & Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer & Elena Goracinova & David A. Wolfe, 2020. "Automotive regions in transition: preparing for connected and automated vehicles," PEGIS geo-disc-2020_02, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
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    Keywords

    regional restructuring; new path development; asset modification; innovation system reconfiguration; connected and automated vehicles;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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