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Author: | Truffer, B. Metzner, A. Hoogma, R. |
Title: | The Coupling of Viewing and Doing: Strategic Niche Management and the Electrification of Individual Transport |
Journal: | Greener Management International
2002 : SPRING, VOL. 37, p. 111-124 |
Index terms: | STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT FORECASTING FUTURE STUDIES ELECTRIC CARS INNOVATION |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | Although foresighting has gained widespread acceptance in the context of strategy formulation in industry and governments, its actual impact on technology development remains unclear. The authors propose the approach of strategic niche management in order to couple long-term visions more tightly with short-term and medium-term action. Such coupling, they argue, is strengthened by developing technological niches: i.e. protected spaces in which learning about the technology takes place and its embedding in society can be observed and tested before large-scale diffusion begins. Real-world experiments with new technologies are a major instrument for developing technological niches. |
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