REGIONAL CASE STUDY: AUTOMOTIVE CRASH-SAFETY IN VÄSTRA GÖTALAND
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REGIONAL CASE STUDY:AUTOMOTIVE CRASH-SAFETY
IN VÄSTRA GÖTALAND
Anders LarssonDepartment of Human and Economic Geography
University of Göteborg
Linking in to global knowledge flowsDissemination Workshop, 22 April 2010, Malmö
A CHANGING TERRITORIAL KNOWLEDGE DYNAMIC
From Towards
Innovation processes Knowledge dynamics
Mono-sectoral trajectories Multi-sectoral dynamics
Specialised production systems Complex production-consumption systems
Spatial division (fixes) of activities Multi-location dynamics
Temporal discontinuity (project) Continous knowledge mobilisation
Based on: Jeannerat H. and O. Crevoiser (2008): From proximity to multi-location Territorial Knowledge Dynamics: The case of the Swiss watch industry. GRET Working
Paper 3/2008-E. Groupe de recherge en économie territoriale: Université de Neuchâtel.
THE CRASH-SAFETY REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE DYNAMIC
• A long-term regional trajectory - 40 years• Three car/truck manufacturing plants• Local university with long-term research in
traffic safety• World-leading regional supplier• Active state policies promote traffic safety
A SHIFT IN TECHNOLOGICAL FOCUS
PASSIVESAFETY
ACTIVESAFETY
CASE 1: Passive safety-Integrated Child Seat
CASE 1: Knowledge characteristics• Specialized regional knowledge system• Cumulative engineering-based knowledge
generation• Dominated by the large car-maker(s)• Regional outsourcing of strategic
knowledge• Prototyping & testing• Project management
CASE 2: Active Safety - Establishing National Research Centre
CASE 2: Active Safety-Establishing National Research Centre
• A research unit using competence from 22 partners from the academy, society and the industry.
• Vision: to enable Sweden to reach world leading competitiveness, and to provide new countermeasures to considerably reduce both the number of traffic accidents and the number of fatalities and serious injuries.
CRASH-SAFETY KNOWLEDE DYNAMICMAIN ACTORS AND RELATIONS
COMPLEMENTARITIES• Sectors incresingly less important as
an analythical tool• New products and services require new
players to be involved• Large-firm controlled configurations
can be potential problems
PROXIMITIES• Proximities (physical, social, temporal)
has been crucial for the generation and use of knowledge in the TKD.
• Continuous competitiveness of the TKD is based on the combination of proximity and distant relations with an increasing importance of the later
INTEGRATING COMPLEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE FIELDS THROUGH PROXIMITY?
Sensor-technologyICT
Human-Machine interaction
GPS
Crash effects on the human body
Long-term accident data follow-up
Driving behaviourTraffic-safety policy
Infrastructure planning
Resque Services
Car design
Product development
Marketing
CAR MAKERSTRAD. SUPPLIERS
KIBSUNIVERSITY
PUBLIC SPHERE
UNIVERSITYCAR MAKERS
REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE ANCHORING
CAPACITY
POLICY COMMENTS…• The large car-makers have been (and still
are) in the drivers seat. What about the future? Constructive participation for change or complacent guardians of ”their own” knowledge?
• Global technological competitiveness for an automotive region is a result of a 40 year trajectory. Is there a policy time-frame to match this?