TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovative products and services with environmental benefits: design of search strategies for external knowledge and absorptive capacity.
AU - Nguyen-Thi, Thuc Uyen
AU - Mothe, Caroline
AU - Triguero, Angela
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Environmental innovation
KW - Inbound innovation
KW - R&D
U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2017.1372275
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2017.1372275
M3 - Article
SN - 0964-0568
VL - 61
SP - 1934
EP - 1954
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
IS - 11
ER -