Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms

IF 3.4 3区管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Industry and Innovation Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI:10.1080/13662716.2022.2109456

E. Cassetta, Ivano Dileo, M. Pini

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ABSTRACT This paper analyses the relationships between eco-innovation and business performance by exploring the role of external collaborations as a potential factor explaining the persisting heterogeneity of economic effects of eco-innovation. Basing on a large survey of 3,000 Italian manufacturing firms, the study investigates to what extent collaborations with supply chain and quadruple helix actors, including public institutions, universities and civil society, contribute in sustaining firm’s growth by improving the effectiveness of different types of eco-innovations. We find that the relationship between eco-innovation and business performance is moderated by both supply-chain and quadruple helix collaborations. However, external collaborations with actors of the quadruple helix show a pronounced heterogeneity. While process eco-innovation may in particular benefit from establishing collaborations with public institutions, product eco-innovation relies more on interactions with civil society suggesting that market-driven factors still exert a main role in influencing the market success of this type of eco-innovation.

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将外部合作、生态创新和可持续增长联系起来。意大利制造业企业的实证分析

本文通过探索外部合作作为解释生态创新经济效应持续异质性的潜在因素的作用，分析了生态创新与企业绩效之间的关系。基于对3000家意大利制造公司的大规模调查，该研究调查了与供应链和四螺旋参与者(包括公共机构、大学和民间社会)的合作在多大程度上通过提高不同类型的生态创新的有效性来促进公司的持续增长。我们发现生态创新与企业绩效之间的关系受到供应链和四螺旋合作的调节。然而，与四螺旋参与者的外部合作显示出明显的异质性。虽然过程生态创新可能特别受益于与公共机构建立合作，但产品生态创新更多地依赖于与民间社会的互动，这表明市场驱动因素仍然在影响这类生态创新的市场成功方面发挥着主要作用。

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期刊介绍： Industry and Innovation is an international refereed journal presenting high-quality original scholarship of the dynamics of industries and innovation. Interdisciplinary in nature, Industry and Innovation is informed by, and contributes in turn to, advancing the theoretical frontier within economics, organization theory, and economic geography. Theoretical issues encompass: •What are the institutional underpinnings for different organizational forms? •How are different industrial structures and institutions related to innovation patterns and economic performance?