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Regulating Innovation:: Utility vs. Leisure in Swedish Moped History, 1952–1961
Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation. Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3865-7609
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
2020 (English)In: Technology and culture, ISSN 0040-165X, E-ISSN 1097-3729, Vol. 61, no 3, p. 815-842, article id 10.1353/tech.2020.0075Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This article investigates the attempts to regulate innovation in Sweden’s road traffic system, specifically small, two-wheeled motorized vehicles or mopeds. Regulators wanted to establish a definition of the moped as a utility vehicle. Moped users and producers challenged their intentions, envisioning the moped as a vehicle for leisure. Our close reading of artefacts allows us to trace the evolution of moped technology and to conceptualize innovation in the moped niche. Situating moped innovation within the context of regulatory attempts and social change, we show how the imposition of technical requirements failed to regulate specific usage of a consumer technology. More broadly, the case study shows how users together with the producers find ways to innovate and shape technologies for their own purposes.

 

Keywords: freedom, moped, regulation, road traffic system, Sweden, welfare state

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2020. Vol. 61, no 3, p. 815-842, article id 10.1353/tech.2020.0075
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freedom, moped, regulation, road traffic system, Sweden, welfare state
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-41356ISI: 000565082400006OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-41356DiVA, id: diva2:1263659
Available from: 2018-11-16 Created: 2018-11-16 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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