Characteristics of Infrastructure Sectors and Implications for Innovation Processes
Characteristics of Infrastructure Sectors and Implications for Innovation Processes
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基础设施部门的特征及其对创新过程的影响
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2009
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Jochen Markard
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作者：
Jochen Markard
能源、天然气或供水、废水处理或电信等基础设施部门为我们提供了现代生活和工业化社会必不可少的服务。为了更好地了解基础设施转型过程的机遇和局限性，我们将探讨这些部门的特殊性。我们介绍和讨论五个方面，沿着，我们确定关键部门的特点。这些因素包括资本密集度、资产耐久性、公共组织的关键作用、监管密集度和高度系统性。我们比较了选定的基础设施部门的这些特点，并讨论了它们的影响，该部门的倾向转变。此外，环境影响、大量资本需求和引入竞争等主要的内部变革驱动力都来自部门特点。它的结论是，资本密集度和资产耐久性与系统性的特点代表变革的障碍，公共组织和监管强度是相当中性的，但创新过程的关键影响。
Infrastructure sectors such as energy, gas or water supply, waste water treatment or telecommunication provide us with services that are essential for modern life and for industrialized societies. In order to better understand the opportunities and limits of transformation processes in infrastructures, we will explore the particularities of these sectors. We introduce and discuss five dimensions, along which we identify key sector characteristics. These include capital intensity, asset durability, a key role of public organizations, regulation intensity and a high degree of systemness. We compare selected infrastructure sectors with regard to these characteristics and discuss their implications for the sectors’ propensity to transform. Furthermore, major internal drivers for change such as environmental impacts, massive capital needs and introduction of competition are derived from the sector characteristics. It is concluded that capital intensity and asset durability together with the systemic character represent barriers for change and that public organizations and regulation intensity are rather neutral, though key influences for innovation processes.