R&D COLLABORATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION

Gunnar Pippel

Chapter 15 in Radical Innovation Challenges:Corporate to Climate, 2023, pp 417-438 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The literature on the impact of R&D collaboration on innovation performance of firms suggests that R&D collaboration is not always beneficial. Therefore, a more detailed analysis of the effects of R&D collaboration is necessary. This paper investigates the relevance of R&D collaboration with different partner types on a firm’s environmental innovation performance. Thereby, product related and process related environmental innovations are distinguished. Firm-level data from 2337 German firms are used in the regression analysis. The results suggest that R&D collaboration with suppliers, customers, universities, governmental research institutes, consultants, and other firms within the same corporate group is positively associated to a firm’s process related environmental innovation performance. R&D collaboration with customers, suppliers, other firms within the same corporate group and consultants is positively associated with the development of environmental friendly products.

Keywords: Innovation; Technology; Radical; Breakthroughs; Disruptive; Blue Ocean; New Product Development; Design Thinking; Business Model Innovation; Climate Change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O31 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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