Identifying Endogenous and Exogenous Indicators to Measure Eco-Innovation within Clusters
Scientific and business environment literature shows that green, sustainable innovation or eco-innovation has proven to be a source of competitive advantage today. The industrial clusters, their dynamism, and the synergies created within them attract a lot of attention from the scientific community....
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Mercado Caruso, Nohora Nubia
Segarra-Oña, Marival
Ovallos, David
PEIRO-SIGNES, ANGEL
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Mercado Caruso, Nohora Nubia Segarra-Oña, Marival Ovallos, David PEIRO-SIGNES, ANGEL |
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Mercado Caruso, Nohora Nubia Segarra-Oña, Marival Ovallos, David PEIRO-SIGNES, ANGEL |
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Cluster Competitiveness Eco-innovation Innovation Business performance |
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Scientific and business environment literature shows that green, sustainable innovation or eco-innovation has proven to be a source of competitive advantage today. The industrial clusters, their dynamism, and the synergies created within them attract a lot of attention from the scientific community. However, to date, the joint study of these two concepts and, more specifically, the factors that drive eco-innovation specifically in a cluster, have not been studied in depth. This article models eco-innovation in industrial clusters, thus addressing this gap and proposing a model based on information gathered from the literature and a detailed analysis of behavior in relation to eco-innovation in different sectors. Results suggest that including eco-innovation variables and measures may have positive implications such as improvements at the strategic level and the reduction of costs and use of resources. An eco-innovation model for clusters is proposed. It considers eight key factors that seek to raise its competitive level by promoting eco-innovation within clusters. The model includes five internal factors that analyze business capabilities and three external factors that study the effect of launching eco-innovative activities. This model could help the companies’ managers and those responsible for clusters in creating more successful strategies to increase competitiveness by enhancing eco-innovation. It could also serve as a guide for government entities in the performance of eco-innovative activities in economic sectors |
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Mercado Caruso, Nohora NubiaSegarra-Oña, MarivalOvallos, DavidPEIRO-SIGNES, ANGEL2021-03-18T13:07:10Z2021-03-18T13:07:10Z2020-07-2920711050https://hdl.handle.net/11323/8040https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156088Corporación Universidad de la CostaREDICUC - Repositorio CUChttps://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/Scientific and business environment literature shows that green, sustainable innovation or eco-innovation has proven to be a source of competitive advantage today. The industrial clusters, their dynamism, and the synergies created within them attract a lot of attention from the scientific community. However, to date, the joint study of these two concepts and, more specifically, the factors that drive eco-innovation specifically in a cluster, have not been studied in depth. This article models eco-innovation in industrial clusters, thus addressing this gap and proposing a model based on information gathered from the literature and a detailed analysis of behavior in relation to eco-innovation in different sectors. Results suggest that including eco-innovation variables and measures may have positive implications such as improvements at the strategic level and the reduction of costs and use of resources. An eco-innovation model for clusters is proposed. It considers eight key factors that seek to raise its competitive level by promoting eco-innovation within clusters. The model includes five internal factors that analyze business capabilities and three external factors that study the effect of launching eco-innovative activities. This model could help the companies’ managers and those responsible for clusters in creating more successful strategies to increase competitiveness by enhancing eco-innovation. It could also serve as a guide for government entities in the performance of eco-innovative activities in economic sectorsMercado Caruso, Nohora Nubia-will be generated-orcid-0000-0001-9261-8331-600Segarra-Oña, Marival-will be generated-orcid-0000-0001-9674-9056-600Ovallos, David-will be generated-orcid-0000-0003-0836-2287-600PEIRO-SIGNES, ANGEL-will be generated-orcid-0000-0002-1549-6972-600application/pdfengCorporación Universidad de la CostaCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Sustainability (Switzerland)https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/15/6088ClusterCompetitivenessEco-innovationInnovationBusiness performanceIdentifying Endogenous and Exogenous Indicators to Measure Eco-Innovation within ClustersArtículo de revistahttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1Textinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ARTinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion1. 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