RT Generic
T1 A resource pool for environmental innovation
A1 Kunapatarawong, Rasi
A1 Martínez-Ros, Ester
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía de la Empresa, 
AB This paper reports research on the relationship between sourcing strategy of a firm and its environmental innovation propensity. The data is taken from the Spanish TechnologicalInnovation Panel (PITEC) survey during the period of 2007-2011. The uniqueness of the Spanish innovation structure and the increasing relevance of environmental issues for the Spanish economy make it a proper setting to investigate environmental innovation dynamics. The results from 5,352 firms indicate that large firms are more likely to undertake environmental innovation than small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs). These firms rely quite equally on all four sources of knowledge &- internal, market, institutional and freely-available sources &- when deciding to develop environmental innovation. The broad horizons with respect to knowledge sources are likely to increase firms' propensity to introduce environmental innovation. In addition, weprovide the evolutionary nature of firm's innovation search as firms grow in size. Small firmsrely on both internal and freely-available sources rather equally, while internal source is the most relevant for medium firms, and market is the most important source used by large firms indriving environmental innovation. Particularly important is how firms who are already innovators and who receive local funding from the Spanish government are more likely to introduce environmental innovation.
SN 2341-0795
YR 2014
FD 2014-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/18339
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/18339
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 17 jul. 2024