How the green and digital transitions are reshaping the automotive ecosystem
The automotive sector is important across OECD countries in terms of value-added and
R&D, but is also heavily affected by the green and the digital transformations. This
paper offers a novel and holistic view of the automotive sector and its surrounding
ecosystem based on a combination of Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) tables, patent
data, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, cross-country micro-distributed
data and firm-level balance sheet data. It identifies the boundaries of this industrial
ecosystem including connected sectors (e.g. upstream and downstream) as well as knowledge
and technology providers (e.g. universities or the digital industry). The paper documents
emerging trends at the geographical and technological levels and provides a comprehensive
assessment of the ecosystem’s changing microstructure, with a growing role of young
and digital-intensive companies. Finally, it provides recommendations for effective
public policies to support the automotive ecosystem, with a focus on innovation, competition
and the growth of young firms.
Available from March 01, 2023
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