Projectification and platform approaches have been two main transformation trends implemented by industrial firms during the1990s. For those firms, innovation management no longer deals with introducing radically and totally new products, but rather withapplying innovative features within a...

Since the seminal work of J. March (1991), balancing exploration and exploitation activities is an important topic in management research. Though the literature is abundant on the management of exploitation activities, exploration activities remain a much less studied area. How should be...

This paper considers the trade-off between leveraging external sources of innovation by outsourcing design and engineering activities and the ability to develop internal product development competences. The trade-off arises because the division of labor within and across firms' boundaries has a...

Ulrich Buller und Holger Hanselka, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, unterstreichen in ihrem Beitrag, dass im Sinne der zukünftigen »Art of Mobility« die gesamte Breite der motorisierten Fahrzeuge, vom Elektrofahrrad über das Elektroauto bis hin zum schweren Nutzfahrzeug, betrachtet werden muss....

In seinem Kommentar setzt sich Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, mit den Elektromobilitätsprojekten der Bundesregierung – den sogenannten »Schaufenstern« für Elektromobilität – auseinander. Deutschland sollte nach dem Regierungsprogramm zum »Leitmarkt für...

Global warming has been increasingly concerning, and international society has been taking various measures to mitigate this issue. Since the electric vehicle has important and generally beneficial impacts on environment protection, grid construction, and operation economical efficiency...

To promote the market penetration of electric vehicles (EV), China launched the Electric Vehicle Subsidy Scheme (EVSS) in Jan 2009, followed by an update in Sep 2013, which we named phase I and phase II EVSS, respectively. In this paper, we presented the rationale of China’s two-phase EVSS and...

In recent years, taxis in multiple cities and metropolitan areas around the world have shifted to utilizing alternative fuel options. Such change has significant potential to reduce environmental externalities and can contribute to alleviating energy policy concerns. However, little work has...

In this paper, an optimal energy management system for EVs (electric vehicles) parking is proposed. The presented model has the capability of management and optimal scheduling of charging and discharging of a large number of electric vehicles while considering technical and economic aspects....

EVs (Electric vehicles) have garnered much of attention over the past few decades as a promising solution to greenhouse gases in transportation. In this paper, a feasibility study is performed applying a TE (thermoelectric) device to the energy storage system of an electric vehicle. By applying...