The influence of innovative entrants on incumbents is considered important for technological change. We analyze this influence for the global transition towards alternative technology vehicles (ATVs). Our results indicate that entrants' ATV-related knowledge accumulation stimulates average...

Innovation in the automobile sector, is happening at a fast pace, especially in terms of environment friendly-technologies. This paper is an exploratory study to understand how technology is evolving in this sector, in context to electric vehicles (EV). For this, patent data, the classic proxy...

Innovation processes are out of necessity and by definition always open-ended and embedded in social interests and beliefs. This paper reports a study of how a power-split technology for hybrid vehicles needed and found support and interest from a variety of social actors to reach the market....