Analysis of the Impact of the Triple Helix on Sustainable Innovation Targets in Spanish Technology Companies

María-Jesús Luengo-Valderrey, Julián Pando-García, Iñaki Periáñez-Cañadillas and Amparo Cervera-Taulet
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María-Jesús Luengo-Valderrey: Department of Management Evaluation and Business Innovation, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (University of the Basque Country), C/Elcano, 21, 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Julián Pando-García: Institute of Business Applied Economics (Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa—IEAE), Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (University of the Basque Country), 48015 Bilbao, Spain
Iñaki Periáñez-Cañadillas: Department of Financial Economics II, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (University of the Basque Country), 48015 Bilbao, Spain
Amparo Cervera-Taulet: Department of Marketing, University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: The establishment of broad-based networks, such as the Triple Helix, for innovation and sustainability is sufficiently corroborated. In this work we suggest that the information received from the Triple Helix has a significant and different impact on the objectives of sustainable innovation, depending on whether companies cooperate or not. To this end, an empirical analysis of a stratified sample of more than 5000 Spanish medium and high technology companies in 2010-2014-2015 was carried out. The results confirm that companies that do not cooperate place more importance on the information received from the Triple Helix to establish their sustainable innovation targets.

Keywords: sustainable development; collaboration networks; Spanish technology companies; Triple Helix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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