Exogenous Factors in the Development of Flexible Fuel Cars as a Local Dominant Technology

dc.creatorTromboni de Souza Nascimento,Paulo
dc.creatorSin Oih Yu,Abraham
dc.creatorQuinello,Robson
dc.creatorS. Macri Russo,Rosária de Fátima
dc.creatorNigro,Francisco
dc.creatorLima,Nilton Cesar
dc.date2009-12-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-07T16:21:17Z
dc.date.available2017-03-07T16:21:17Z
dc.identifierhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242009000400009
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/400138
dc.descriptionWith flexible fuel technology, customers can choose gasoline, ethanol, or any mix thereof at the fuel station pump. This paper presents the endogenous and exogenous factors that influnced the development of a flexible fuel electronic injection system by Magneti Marelli Automotive Systems Brazil - the first to the market. This software-based architecture, launched commercially in 2003, is now the dominant flexfuel design in the Brazilian market. This article documents the emergence of a local dominant technology (design) in a specific car sub-system. It is shown how exogenous institutional factors played the major role in this process. The paper also shows that this local dominant technological design emerged through the sharing of capabilities and interaction among the key market players, in the absence of a strong appropriability regime. All the main market pioneers were multinational affiliates, inviting questions concerning this technology diffusion outside Brazil.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
dc.sourceJournal of technology management & innovation v.4 n.4 2009
dc.subjectautomotive industry
dc.subjectbiofuels
dc.subjectethanol
dc.subjectlocal dominant design
dc.subjectpower train technology
dc.titleExogenous Factors in the Development of Flexible Fuel Cars as a Local Dominant Technology
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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