The green-impact of the open innovation mode. Bridging knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity for environmental innovations

Sandro Montresor (), Claudia Ghisetti () and Alberto Marzucchi

No JRC83831, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: This Policy Brief presents recent results on the impact that an open innovation mode has on European firms' environmental innovations. New evidence drawn from the CIS suggests that knowledge sourcing can increase the environmental innovation performance of firms. However, the way firms search for external knowledge and work to absorb it can lead them to different results, depending on whether they are involved in the adoption of an eco-innovation or the extension of their eco-innovation portfolio. Drawing on these results, policy implications for the European Research and Innovation Agenda are discussed.

Keywords: innovation; environment; eco-innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2013-08
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