High-speed rail and barriers to innovation

The Budd Company and the limits of US indirect industrial policy in the 1960s and 1970s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10248890
AutoresJonathan Michael Feldman (0000-0003-1064-4160, Stockholm University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume43
Fascículo1
Páginas54-81
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00225266221080407
OpenAlexW4220760581
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas20

This study examines the Metroliner passenger rail trains manufactured by the Budd Company in the 1960s and 1970s. I show that while transportation companies and the government facilitated the development of a high(er) speed rail line and trains, this procurement process was not sufficient for sustaining Budd as a national rail producer. This case study is based on government documents, interviews, news reports, published studies and archival work. The limits to the Metroliner program as industrial policy were based on: (a) company innovative lags; (b) weakness in Budd's industrial profile and endogenous capacities; (c) failures in systems integration and (d) the contradictions of an indirect industrial policy, where companies gain capacities from the state indirectly or insufficiently

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