Understanding smart mobility experiments in the Dutch automobility system: Who is involved and what do they promise?
Autor: | TN Tanja Manders, Anna J. Wieczorek, Gpj Geert Verbong |
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Přispěvatelé: | Technology, Innovation & Society |
Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Organizational innovation
Sociology and Political Science 020209 energy Mobility system Niche 02 engineering and technology Development Automobility Transition experiment Niches Order (exchange) 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economic geography Business and International Management Ecological niche Smart mobility 05 social sciences Variety (cybernetics) ComputingMilieux_GENERAL Information and Communications Technology ICT Business New entrants 050203 business & management |
Zdroj: | Futures, 96, 90-103. Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0016-3287 |
Popis: | In this paper, we aim to understand what ICT-related automobility experiments are initiated in the Netherlands, who is involved and what promises they make, in order to get a better understanding of the magnitude and direction of change. We show an example of how to study a large variety of experiments to understand the emergence of niches before predetermining these as analytical constructs. By analyzing 118 experiments, we can identify the emergence of two niches: an automated mobility niche and a mobility services niche. The automated niche is characterized by large involvement of incumbents and a strong technological orientation. The services niche focuses more on organizational innovations and involves many new entrants. The involvement of a third actor category, ‘mature entrants’, applies to both niches and concern those actors that fall more or less in-between the common ‘incumbent-new entrant’ dichotomy. In general, experiments in the automated niche seem to strengthen the dominant role of the car in the automobility system, while services niche experiments mainly portray an altered role of the car in an alternative mobility system. We conclude that we gained a better understanding of the experiments and emerging niches, but at this stage, developments can still head in different directions. Nevertheless, the involvement of mature entrants in both niches, we argue, can be an important indication that more substantial change is likely to occur. |
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