Energy and Material Efficiency Innovations: The Relevance of Innovation Strategies

Werner Bönte () and Christian Dienes ()
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Christian Dienes: Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal, Germany

No sdp12001, Schumpeter Discussion Papers from Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library

Abstract: This study explores the relationship between energy and material efficiency innovations (EMEIs) and innovation strategies employed by manufacturing firms to develop their process innovations. Firms may mainly develop process innovations in-house, let them mainly develop by other enterprises or institutions, or they or they may develop them jointly with external partners. The empirical analysis is based on data of European manufacturing firms obtained from the fourth Community Innovation Survey. Our results suggest that EMEIs are related to process innovation strategies. Firms which let mainly develop their process innovations by other enterprises or institutions tend to be less likely to introduce EMEIs at all and these firms are also less likely to introduce EMEIs with stronger efficiency effects. Moreover, our results do not suggest that firms following the 'cooperation strategy' are more likely to introduce EMEIs and to reach a higher EMEI performance than firms followin g the 'in-house strategy'.Hence, our results do not confirm the results of previous research pointing to a positive relationship between environmental innovations and cooperation with external partners.

Keywords: energy and material efficiency; process innovations; innovation strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 O32 O33 Q55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2012-01
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