How R&D cooperation, R&D expenditures, public funds and R&D intensity affect green innovation?

ABSTRACT

Green innovation plays a substantial role in creating new products and services, as well as in reducing environmental impacts and promoting the efficient use of resources and materials. This study investigates the linkage between green innovation and research and development (R&D) practices inside and outside firms over time; it also explores types of external partners. The results show that internal and external R&D efforts enhance the activities of green innovation. However, the external partner is an important factor, whereas cooperation with competitors could help firms in general affairs not related to competition.

KEYWORDS:

• Green innovation
• Cooperation
• R&D
• Environmental innovation

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by project ECO2016-77843-P (AEI/FEDER, UE) and S52_20R: Compete Research Group (Government of Aragón/FEDER, UE).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by Government of Aragón/FEDER, UE [S52_20R:Compete Research Group]; AEI/FEDER, UE [project ECO2016-77843-P].

Notes on contributors

Pedro Sánchez-Sellero

Pedro Sánchez-Sellero is a Senior Lecturer in Universidad de Zaragoza. His areas of expertise are internationalization, productivity, foreign direct investment, spillovers, absorptive capacity, technology management and human resource management. His Doctoral Thesis in Business Administration achieved the Prize awarded by Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors for the best Spanish Doctoral Thesis in Legal and Economic Sciences in 2012.

Mohammad Jamal Bataineh

Mohammad Jamal Bataineh is a PhD Researcher in Business Administration, Universidad de Zaragoza. His Doctoral Thesis about the drivers for green innovation and its effect on the competitive advantage in Spain. He has academic experience as lecturer in business management for more than five years at various universities in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. His areas of expertise are innovation, environmental innovation, human resource management, and entrepreneurship.