Infrastructure System-of-Systems (I-SoS ) Research Group
Date of this Version
11-15-2010
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Conference Proceeding
Abstract
Financial innovations have emerged globally to close the gap between the rising global demand for infrastructures and the availability of financing sources offered by traditional financing mechanisms such as fuel taxation, tax-exempt bonds, and federal and state funds. The key to sustainable innovative financing mechanisms is effective policymaking. This paper discusses the theoretical framework of a research study whose objective is to structurally and systemically assess financial innovations in global infrastructures. The research aims to create analysis frameworks, taxonomies and constructs, and simulation models pertaining to the dynamics of the innovation process to be used in policy analysis. Structural assessment of innovative financing focuses on the typologies and loci of innovations and evaluates the performance of different types of innovative financing mechanisms. Systemic analysis of innovative financing explores the determinants of the innovation process using the System of Innovation approach. The final deliverables of the research include propositions pertaining to the constituents of System of Innovation for infrastructure finance which include the players, institutions, activities, and networks. These static constructs are used to develop a hybrid Agent-Based/System Dynamics simulation model to derive propositions regarding the emergent dynamics of the system. The initial outcomes of the research study are presented in this paper and include: (a) an archetype for mapping innovative financing mechanisms, (b) a System of Systems-based analysis framework to identify the dimensions of Systems of Innovation analyses, and (c) initial observations regarding the players, institutions, activities, and networks of the System of Innovation in the context of the U.S. transportation infrastructure financing.
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Recommended Citation
Mostafavi, A., and Abraham, D. M. (2010). "Frameworks for Systemic and Structural Analysis of Financial Innovations in Infrastructure," working paper, Electronic Proceedings of 2010 Engineering Project Organization Conference (EPOC 2010), John E. Taylor and Paul Chinowsky, Eds., Engineering Project Organizations Society, November 4-6, 2010, South Lake Tahoe CA.
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Originally published in IATSS Research