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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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Institución: | Corporación Universidad de la Costa |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio REDICUC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/8040 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11323/8040 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156088 https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/ |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cluster Competitiveness Eco-innovation Innovation Business performance |
| Sumario: | 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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