Materials Innovation for Forthcoming Automobile

Automobile Recycling Policy: Background Materials

The issue of automobile recyclability is a problem with complex ramifications for car makers world-wide. Confronted with increasingly stringent fuel economy, emissions, and safety standards, recyclability is an attribute which can limit the ability of the automaker to meet these other goals economically. Nevertheless, social and political pressures upon the industry require that it responds to ...

Ingénierie des connaissances et innovation - Application dans le domaine automobile

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Materials used in automobile manufacture - current state and perspectives

The materials which are applied in modem motor vehicles can be considered to be optimally accommodated to the actual demands. Normally a change of materials is only required if by that a cost reduction can be realized, or if the demands change. Such changes at present or in the near future mainly concern ecological aspects: consumption reduction; weight reduction; low emission of pollutants by ...

[Pathology of plastic materials in the automobile industry].

Supplier and Buyer Market Power, Appropriability, and Innovation Activities Evidence for the German Automobile Industry

Recent econometric studies only emphasize the role of long-term demand expectations and technological capability. They neglect the impact of buyer market structure on innovative efforts of input suppliers. This paper deals with the effects of supplier and buyer market concentration, and appropriability conditions on the innovative behavior of suppliers within the German automobile industry. The...