Promoting Eco-innovations to Leverage Sustainable Development of Eco-industry and Green Growth

Sarkar, A. N.

doi:10.14207/ejsd.2013.v2n1p171

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“…Companies keep on doing business assuming and applying environmental commitment in various ways. Over the last few years, environmental proactivity has become a goal for many companies (Aragón- Correa & Rubio-López, 2007;Rivera-Torres et al, 2015;Sharma, 2001), with different implementing manners tagged as green economy, circular economy (Witjes & Lozano, 2016) or eco-innovation (Garcés Ayerbe et al, 2016; Sarkar, 2013;Valero-Gil et al, 2017), among others.…”

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Divulgación ambiental y la interrelación de la ecoinnovación. El caso de las empresas españolas

Fondevila

Abadía

Scarpellini

2019

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The actual drivers of companies’ environmental disclosure have been widely studied and yet with no conclusive results. Most literature looks for the link between environmental performance and environmental disclosure, as reflection of the company instrumental or normative approach to sustainability. However, over the last decade, a growing number of companies are joining the ranks of eco-innovation, focusing their strategy on environmental innovation, and paving the way for new approaches to environmental disclosure. The main objective of this paper is to assess if eco-innovation in companies can be acting as a non-intended driver to disclosure of environmental reporting, in connection to the Resources Based View theory, and the search for competitive advantage. An extensive research has been undertaken with Spanish eco-innovative companies, evaluating their environmental disclosure standards from a two-fold perspective: managers’ perception and public available environmental reporting. The findings bring in interesting implications about the mismatch between managers’ perception of their environmental disclosure and accounting standards, and the actual disclosure of environmental reporting made available to their stakeholders. Within the studied sample, eco-innovation appears to be a driver for environmental disclosure from an inside-out approach encompassed in the RBV theory, where environmental information is primarily meant for managerial purposes and only secondarily to inform stakeholders. Los impulsores reales de la divulgación ambiental de las empresas han sido ampliamente estudiados y, sin embargo, sin resultados concluyentes. La mayoría de la literatura busca el vínculo entre el desempeño ambiental y la divulgación ambiental, como reflejo del enfoque instrumental o normativo de la compañía hacia la sostenibilidad. Sin embargo, durante la última década, un número creciente de compañías se están uniendo a las filas de la ecoinnovación, enfocando su estrategia en la innovación ambiental y allanando el camino para nuevos enfoques para la divulgación ambiental. El objetivo principal de este documento es evaluar si la ecoinnovación en las empresas puede actuar como un impulsor no intencionado de la divulgación de informes ambientales, en relación con la teoría de la Vista basada en los recursos y la búsqueda de una ventaja competitiva. Se ha llevado a cabo una extensa investigación con empresas ecoinnovadoras españolas, evaluando sus estándares de divulgación ambiental desde una doble perspectiva: la percepción de los administradores y la información ambiental disponible al público. Los hallazgos traen implicaciones interesantes sobre el desajuste entre la percepción de los gerentes sobre su divulgación ambiental y sus normas contables, y la divulgación real de los informes ambientales puestos a disposición de sus partes interesadas. Dentro de la muestra estudiada, la ecoinnovación parece ser un impulsor para la divulgación ambiental desde un enfoque integral incluido en la teoría de la RBV, donde la información ambiental se destina principalmente a fines administrativos y solo de manera secundaria a informar a los interesados.

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Divulgación ambiental y la interrelación de la ecoinnovación. El caso de las empresas españolas

Fondevila

Abadía

Scarpellini

2019

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“…Arnkil et al (2010) showed the importance of supporting innovation by regional authorities. Sarkar (2013) proved that innovation stimulates sustainable development of the environmental sector and promotes green economic growth at all levels. Sotnyk et al (2013) investigated the influence of innovative information and communication technologies for achieving sustainable development of the country.…”

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Assessment of the development of innovation activities in the regions: Case of Ukraine

Hrytsenko

Вороненко

Kovalenko

et al. 2021

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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The development of innovation activities is of great importance on the path to achieving the goals of sustainable development. Success on this path is closely related to the presence of comparable information on the development of innovation activities at the regional level. The aim of the paper is to assess the development of innovation activities in the regions of Ukraine and identify differences in results. The study is performed using relative indicators for the assessment of the development of innovation activities in the regions of Ukraine. The indicators were averaged and normalized. To analyze how innovation activities change over time, the dynamic indices based on the geometric mean of the growth rate of the relative indicators were used. The obtained results have significant differences in the regions being assessed. Most regions have a heterogeneous development of innovation activities. At the same time, they are at the top and bottom of the rankings of the regions in different indicators of the development of innovation activities. Only Cherkasy and Zaporizhzhia oblasts are at the top of the rankings in at least 75% of indicators. However, in 2017‒2019, all indicators improved in at least 29% of regions. In addition, 75% of indicators improved in at least 54% of regions. Therefore, over time, most regions progressed in the development of innovation activities. Management decisions for the development of innovation activities should be complex for all regions and implemented primarily in the regions where there is no improvement over time. AcknowledgmentsThe paper is prepared within the scientific research project “Sustainable development and resource security: from disruptive technologies to digital transformation of Ukrainian economy” (No. 0121U100470).

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“…Sustainable development (SD) is a multi-faceted idea, enveloping the interdependence of economic, social and ecological order in socio-economic development, and the necessity of preserving scarce resources for upcoming generations (Kates et al, 2005). Eco-innovation constitutes one of the solutions facilitating the implementation of the concept of SD (Sarkar, 2013;Dahan & Yusof, 2020). In general, one can identify three groups of definitions of ecoinnovation: 1) definitions related to sustainable development -in general -or related strictly to the environmental aspect (eco-innovation as an instrument); 2) definitions that focus on the life cycle of eco-innovation (eco-innovation as a process); 3) definitions that pertain to environmental gains and/or economic gains (eco-innovation as a source of effects).…”

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Eco-Innovation Paths: Convergence or Divergence?

Karman

Kijek

2020

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Eco-innovations comprise new or modified processes, techniques, practices, systems and products allowing environmental harms to be avoided or reduced. They are employed in order for specific social and environmental objectives to be achieved, hence their environmental, social, and institutional significance relating to the achievement of long-term sustainable growth patterns. As a consequence, eco-innovation has great amount of focus from many countries. Adding to the current literature which focuses mainly on the drivers and effects of eco-innovation in the context of developed and developing countries, this paper tries to find an answer to the question about the absolute β-convergence of eco-innovation. We also consider the spillover effects in the analyses. Our sample consists of 38 countries and relates to the years 2012−2017. We apply the spatial panel models to verify the research hypotheses. The results confirm that there is the absolute β-convergence in the sample countries. Moreover, we find evidence of positive spillovers of eco-innovation.

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Promoting Eco-innovations to Leverage Sustainable Development of Eco-industry and Green Growth

Cited by 44 publications

References 36 publications

Divulgación ambiental y la interrelación de la ecoinnovación. El caso de las empresas españolas

Divulgación ambiental y la interrelación de la ecoinnovación. El caso de las empresas españolas

Assessment of the development of innovation activities in the regions: Case of Ukraine

Eco-Innovation Paths: Convergence or Divergence?

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