Escaping lock-in: The case of the electric vehicle

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 61-79

  Cowan, Robin ^a   Hultén, Staffan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; MANUFACTURING; TECHNOLOGICAL LOCKIN;

EID: 0030441433     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1625(96)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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