Forms of knowledge and eco-innovation modes: Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

By Alberto Marzucchi, Sandro Montresor. 2017

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The paper investigates the knowledge drivers of firms' eco-innovations (EI) by retaining the diverse nature of their target. Different internal and external knowledge sources are examined and the evidence of EI-modes is searched for with respect to a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms covering the 2007–2009 and 2010–2012 periods. An “attenuated” Science, Technology, EI-mode prevails internally, with R&D more pivotal than either embodied or disembodied non-R&D knowledge, depending on the EI strategy. Externally, synthetic knowledge matters more than the analytical one, suggesting instead a Doing, Using, Interacting EI-mode. Hence, a dichotomic combination of the two modes emerges across the firm's boundaries. However, remarkable differences are in place, depending on whether EIs target efficiency or non-efficiency related environmental improvements. Our evidence also shows that internal and external knowledge turn out difficult to combine, both within and across modes.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Knowledge sources and impacts on subsequent inventions: Do green technologies differ from non-green ones? (2018, background): “Acknowledging the diversity of environmental innovations (i.e., their different objectives), Marzucchi and Montresor (2017) suggest that efficiency-related environmental technologies exhibit important elements of novelty - for instance, industrial design and engineering mechanisms - making them…”
Absorptive capacity and relationship learning mechanisms as complementary drivers of green innovation performance (2018, background): “Indeed, a large number of studies have reported the (distinctive) relevance of the collaboration with stakeholders for the effective introduction of environmental innovations (e.g., De Marchi, 2012, Cainelli et al, 2015; Marzucchi and Montresor, 2017).”