Comparative analysis of intelligent connected vehicle industry in China, United States and European Union from technology lifecycle perspective
Abstract
Purpose
The intelligent connected vehicle (ICV) is an important trend in automobile development, but little research has been conducted on the technological differences in the ICV industry across countries. In this regard, the authors select China, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) as countries with developed ICV industries to reveal these differences based on the perspective of subdivision technology.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use logistic regression to fit lifecycles at technology level and country level based on ICV-related patents from China, the US and the EU, then use the Revealed Technological Advantage (RTA) index, Fast-Growing Specialization Index (FGSI) and International Patent Classification (IPC) numbers to conduct comparison of national technology advantages, finally use the social network analysis to investigate the evolution of characteristics and intermediate nodes of each technology innovation network.
Findings
Technology lifecycles vary according to the subdivision technology and country. The global development of the ICV industry has reached the mature stage, and 2030 may be a watershed moment, ushering in a wave of new technology iterations. In various subdivision technologies, China and the US have more leading RTAs, and China and the EU have more leading FGSIs. Innovation networks in different countries expand with technology lifecycles, with that in China being the fastest. China's Universities, the US's enterprises and the EU's research institutes are active in cooperative innovation as intermediaries.
Originality/value
This is the first study to compare the development of the ICV industry in major countries from the perspective of subdivision technology and reveal characteristics of innovation networks in each.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant number: 21CGL004), Philosophy and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province (CN) (Grant number: 20GLC012), National Natural Science Fund of China (Grant number: 71974096, 72104121), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant number: 30921012201), Jiangsu Province's 14th Five-year Educational Science Planning Project (Grant number: C-b/2021/01/25), Young Teachers Research Fund Project of School of Economics and Management in Nanjing University of Science and Technology (Grant number: JGQN2002) and Jiangsu Provincial Soft Science Research Program Project: Research on Reform of Empowering Scientific and Technological Achievements in Positions (Grant number: SBR2022000385).
Citation
Zhang, H., Qi, Y. and Zhang, G. (2023), "Comparative analysis of intelligent connected vehicle industry in China, United States and European Union from technology lifecycle perspective", Kybernetes, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-05-2023-0928
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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