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.
Innovation in the European transport sector: A review
Transport Policy ; 42 ; 86-93
2015-05-07
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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