Environmental innovation and cooperation: A configurational approach

Marchi, Valentina De; Molina‐Morales, F. Xavier; Martínez-Cháfer, Luís

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121835

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“…Hence, scholars mainly explore the influencing factors of innovation cooperation from the perspectives of R&D costs, external environment, geographical location, and partner types. They found that when R&D costs and innovation difficulty are high, innovation entities tend to prefer innovation cooperation (Becker and Dietz, 2004;Marchi et al, 2022). Enterprises located in technology parks and those with low environmental uncertainty are more likely to choose innovation cooperation (Urriago et al, 2016;.…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

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Does the Belt and Road Initiative promote international innovation cooperation?

Xiao,

Xue,

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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International innovation cooperation is crucial to the enhancement of national technological innovation capabilities in the context of globalization. Does the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as a major international initiative, promote innovation cooperation between China and BRI partner countries? Taking the top 80 global countries in innovation capability as the research sample, this paper uses the DID method to answer this question. The empirical results show that the BRI indeed promoted innovation cooperation between them to a certain extent. Specifically, it significantly increased the proportion of their cooperative patents in China’s total patents, and the promotion effect was more obvious for countries with better economic foundations. Furthermore, the mechanism tests indicate that shortening the institutional distance, strengthening the exchange of scientific and technological talents, and stimulating cultural differences were important mechanisms promoting their innovation cooperation. Although the BRI did not significantly increase the proportion of cooperative patents in BRI partner countries’ total patents, it effectively improved their innovation foundations and capabilities.

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Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

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Does the Belt and Road Initiative promote international innovation cooperation?

Xiao,

Xue,

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…From an academic point of view, this research highlighted quite a new aspect: in the supply-chain collaboration, on average, suppliers are the initiators of green innovation technology initiatives [116]. Here, we focus on the point of view of customers, who, getting the needs and pains [117] of the final consumer, as especially happens in the automotive industry, can highlight important market trends and topics and offer the territory for future alliances in order to build more effective green supply-chains [118]. From an academic perspective, this research contributes additionally to the literature on environmental sustainability strategy and decarbonization, which is still an open field of discussion, especially in the steel sector [119,120].…”

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Structuring and Measuring Environmental Sustainability in the Steel Sector: A Single Case Study

Tolettini

Maria

2023

Sustainability

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Climate change policies are affecting the economic and structural viability of European Union (EU) industries, particularly in the energy-intensive sector, with very challenging goals of EU Agenda 2030 in terms of CO2 reductions and energy efficiency. This ecological transition can be supported by the employment of innovative technologies, enabling production process efficiency, resource optimization and supply-chain integration. Nevertheless, it is still empirically unclear how energy-intensive industries will complete their ecological transition successfully, especially in terms of achieving environmental sustainability practices within the organization and in the supply-chain without endangering their economic availability. Moreover, the assessment of environmental sustainability performance is still not a unique standard framework, causing loss of transparency and traceability towards internal and external stakeholders, such as managers, investors and business partners. With 20 qualitative interviews of customers and experts of a company leader in the steel construction sector in Italy and Germany, the Feralpi Group, this paper explores the implications of strategic environmental sustainability indicators, which can transparently assess company performance. Preliminary results underline how shared standardized indicators are fundamental for a tighter supply-chain integration, giving impulse and significance to the steel producers’ efforts for environmental sustainability excellence. Future research should further investigate the connection between environmental sustainability strategies and performance indicators for a more integrated sustainability framework.

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“…Ref. [21] used a qualitative comparison method to determine the impact of cooperation between groups on the potential joint strength of the alliance's green innovation tendency. They found seven equivalent paths to high innovation performance-cooperation with universities instead of private consultants, cooperation with universities and research institutes, and cooperation with universities and customers being the most decentralized.…”

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Research on the Group Innovation Information-Sharing Strategy of the Industry–University–Research Innovation Alliance Based on an Evolutionary Game

Tang,

Wang,

Feng

2023

Mathematics

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Based on various factors in information sharing between innovation alliance groups, this paper analyzes innovation information sharing under the influence of various factors and its evolutionary path to provide a reference for the decision-making of innovation information sharing between innovation alliance groups. Firstly, the paper analyzes the main factors influencing alliance group innovation information-sharing behavior. Secondly, based on the evolutionary game theory, an evolutionary game model of innovative information sharing under the cooperative trust degree of group decision-makers is constructed, and the related stable strategies are given. Finally, the sensitivity of innovative information-sharing strategies to key influencing factors is analyzed with the help of actual case data. The results show that a reasonable amount of innovation information sharing and fair profit distribution can improve the innovation information-sharing behavior among the industry–university–research alliance. Considering the trust degree of vertical partners, the alliance group pays more attention to the profit distribution ratio of collaborative innovation of the innovation alliance than the profit amount. When horizontal partner trust is considered, horizontal cooperation trust can promote information sharing among enterprises, universities, and research institutes in the short term but impedes information sharing among groups in the long term.

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Environmental innovation and cooperation: A configurational approach

Cited by 24 publications

References 96 publications

Does the Belt and Road Initiative promote international innovation cooperation?

Does the Belt and Road Initiative promote international innovation cooperation?

Structuring and Measuring Environmental Sustainability in the Steel Sector: A Single Case Study

Research on the Group Innovation Information-Sharing Strategy of the Industry–University–Research Innovation Alliance Based on an Evolutionary Game

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