Exploring innovation in the automotive industry: new technologies for cleaner cars
Exploring innovation in the automotive industry: new technologies for cleaner cars
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.09.009
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
C. Zapata;P. Nieuwenhuis
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作者：
C. Zapata;P. Nieuwenhuis
创新的概念已被用于广泛的背景下，理论的发展已被证明是非常有价值的，提供了重要的见解，内部市场竞争，战略和监管政策。汽车行业为尚未完成的创新理论建设过程的进步提供了肥沃的土壤，特别是随着替代燃料和替代动力系统技术的引入。本文研究了现代汽车工业背景下的创新概念，重点关注替代燃料和替代动力系统技术的监管创新概念。为了分析这一问题，特别注意适用于现有替代燃料和替代动力技术，包括混合动力、生物燃料和氢动力的根本性和渐进性创新概念。本文探讨了这三类具有代表性的案例研究：巴西乙醇与生物燃料的经验，丰田混合动力汽车的发展和氢燃料电池的技术发展。之所以选择这些类别，是因为它们代表了汽车工业清洁生产方面最重要的进展。
The concept of innovation has been used in a wide range of contexts and the theoretical development has proven to be extremely valuable to provide important insights into intra-market competition, strategy and regulatory policy. The automotive industry offers a fertile terrain for progress of the uncompleted theory building process of innovation, especially with the introduction of alternative fuels and alternative powertrain technologies. This paper investigates the concept of innovation in the context of the modern automotive industry, by focusing on the notion of regulatory innovation of alternative fuels and alternative powertrain technologies. For the purpose of analysing this issue, special attention is given to the concepts of radical and incremental innovation, which are applied to existing alternative fuels and alternative powertrain technologies, including hybrids, biofuels and hydrogen power. The article explores these three categories looking at representative case studies: the Brazilian ethanol experience with biofuels, the development of the Toyota hybrid vehicle and the technological development of hydrogen fuel cells. These categories have been selected because they represent the most important advances in cleaner production for the automotive industry.