Innovative products and services with environmental benefits: design of search strategies for external knowledge and absorptive capacity

Although the antecedents of environmental innovation and open innovation strategies have been well-studied separately, the relationship between a firm's openness and environmental technological innovation still remains an interesting topic to research, especially in terms of the various modes o...

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Published in:Journal of environmental planning and management 2018-09, Vol.61 (11), p.1934-1954
Main Authors: Mothe, Caroline, Nguyen-Thi, Uyen T., Triguero, Ángela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absorptive capacity
Absorptivity
Business administration
Cooperation
environmental innovation
Humanities and Social Sciences
inbound innovation
Information dissemination
Innovations
Machinery
Openness
R&D
R&D acquisition
R&D cooperation
Research & development
Search methods
Search strategies
Services
Software
Sourcing
Technological change
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Summary:Although the antecedents of environmental innovation and open innovation strategies have been well-studied separately, the relationship between a firm's openness and environmental technological innovation still remains an interesting topic to research, especially in terms of the various modes of openness on the one hand and the product-process distinction on the other. This study relies on data from the French Community Innovation Survey to differentiate the association of three dimensions of open inbound innovation search strategies - acquiring, sharing, and information sourcing - with environmental product (ecoproduct) and process (ecoprocess) innovations. Inbound innovation, attained through the acquisition of machinery, equipment, and software, is more likely to be associated with ecoprocess than ecoproduct innovations; external R&D only drives ecoproducts. Inbound sharing through R&D cooperation seems associated with the introduction of both ecoproducts and ecoprocesses. For inbound innovation sourcing, external market sources of information are positively associated with firms' involvement in all types of environmental innovation.
ISSN:0964-0568
1360-0559
DOI:10.1080/09640568.2017.1372275