Abstract This article reviews innovation of the European transport industries. It combines a quantitative analysis of the R&D investment of manufacturers of transport equipment, transport service providers and the constructors of transport infrastructure for the years 2008 and 2011 with a qualitative assessment of their incentives to innovate. The latter takes into account sector-specific innovation systems, their distinct market environments and the products and services produced. The findings show that, although the transport sector as a whole is the largest industrial R&D investor in the EU, there are important differences in the level of innovation activities carried out by the highly heterogeneous sub-sectors. These differences seem to be of systemic nature: they are found consistently in the quantitative analysis and the theoretical considerations. The result is highly policy-relevant as it indicates that policies targeting innovation in transport need to take into account the specific innovation capacities of the various sub-sectors.

    Highlights Transport is the largest industrial R&D investor in the EU. EU transport companies' R&D investment bn €2008 38.2 in 2008 and bn €2008 42.8 in 2011. Innovation efforts link to market size, competition, product, innovation system. Transport equipment manufacturers have generally high R&D intensities. Transport service providers and infrastructure constructors have low R&D intensities.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff prüfen

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen

    Bestellung bei Subito €


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Innovation in the European transport sector: A review


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    Transport Policy ; 42 ; 86-93


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-05-07


    Format / Umfang :

    8 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Innovation in the European transport sector: A review

    Wiesenthal, Tobias | Online Contents | 2015


    ICT Innovation and Sustainability of the Transport Sector

    William R. Black / Marina van Geenhuizen | DOAJ | 2006

    Freier Zugriff

    Opportunities for European innovation policy for transport

    Van Zuylen, H. J. / Weber, K. M. / Association for European Transport | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000


    Open innovation in the European space sector: Existing practices, constraints and opportunities

    van Burg, Elco / Giannopapa, Christina / Reymen, Isabelle M.M.J. | Elsevier | 2017