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Drivers of innovation in the automotive regime in the Stuttgart Region

Steinbrenner, Mara Sophie LU (2020) EKHS34 20201
Department of Economic History
Abstract (Swedish)
This thesis examines drivers of innovation within the automotive in- dustry of the Stuttgart Region, Germany. Geels’ concept of a Multi-Level-Perspective is applied to the industry and its environment, when investigating positive and neg- ative drivers. The research design of this thesis follows an exploratory case study of innovation, that includes semi-structured interviews with experts of the indus- try and startup founders that invented a novelty that is somehow interconnected with the automotive industry. This qualitative data reveals relevant drivers of in- novation, interdependencies between actors and the level of origin and stimulation of the investigated drivers. Relevant drivers, such as technological change, in the form of... (More)
This thesis examines drivers of innovation within the automotive in- dustry of the Stuttgart Region, Germany. Geels’ concept of a Multi-Level-Perspective is applied to the industry and its environment, when investigating positive and neg- ative drivers. The research design of this thesis follows an exploratory case study of innovation, that includes semi-structured interviews with experts of the indus- try and startup founders that invented a novelty that is somehow interconnected with the automotive industry. This qualitative data reveals relevant drivers of in- novation, interdependencies between actors and the level of origin and stimulation of the investigated drivers. Relevant drivers, such as technological change, in the form of digitalisation that pressures the sociotechnical car regime and stimulates tensions between actors and within corporations are revealed. This landscape pres- sure enables innovations to arise from a niche, discover market chances and place themselves in ”windows of opportunity” of the sociotechnical regime. (Less)
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author
Steinbrenner, Mara Sophie LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS34 20201
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Innovation, Multi-Level-Perspective, Drivers of Innovation, Au- tomotive Sociotechnical Regime, Technological Change, Automotive Industry in Stuttgart
language
English
id
9017763
date added to LUP
2020-07-03 12:13:48
date last changed
2020-07-03 12:13:48
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  abstract     = {{This thesis examines drivers of innovation within the automotive in- dustry of the Stuttgart Region, Germany. Geels’ concept of a Multi-Level-Perspective is applied to the industry and its environment, when investigating positive and neg- ative drivers. The research design of this thesis follows an exploratory case study of innovation, that includes semi-structured interviews with experts of the indus- try and startup founders that invented a novelty that is somehow interconnected with the automotive industry. This qualitative data reveals relevant drivers of in- novation, interdependencies between actors and the level of origin and stimulation of the investigated drivers. Relevant drivers, such as technological change, in the form of digitalisation that pressures the sociotechnical car regime and stimulates tensions between actors and within corporations are revealed. This landscape pres- sure enables innovations to arise from a niche, discover market chances and place themselves in ”windows of opportunity” of the sociotechnical regime.}},
  author       = {{Steinbrenner, Mara Sophie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Drivers of innovation in the automotive regime in the Stuttgart Region}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}