Strategies for shifting technological systems : the case of the automobile system

摘要: Californian and Dutch efforts to produce electric vehicles are explored compared. Three strategies put forward that could turn from an elusive legend, a plaything, into marketable product: technology forcing creating market of early promises, experiments geared towards niche development upscaling (strategic management), the creation new alliances (technological nexus) which bring technology, market, regulation many other factors together. These deployed in context analysed detail explore their relative strengths weaknesses argue end combined use all three will increase chances dominant technological system change. The succesful workings these crucially depend on coupling variation selection processes, building blocks for any evolutionary theory technical Evolutionary lacks understanding processes. Building recent insights sociology authors propose quasi-evolutionary model underpins analysis suggested strategies.