Open innovation is a new approach in innovation studies emphasize at opening the boundaries of the firm for exchanging the knowledge and R&D achievements with other enterprises, research centres and even competitors. As innovation plays a key role in achieving sustainable development goals and among them environmental sustainability, the effect of open innovation in facilitating the innovation process in transport sector will be discussed in this paper. Three indicators of open innovation have been analysed in order to identify how they can affect the number of firms which could introduce new innovations to the market in European Union countries. These indicators are: cooperation, acquisition of external resources and patents registered for electric and hybrid vehicles. The results of this study showed that while the cooperative and acquisition activities has a significant effect on the number of firms which could introduce new innovation to the market the effect of electric hybrid vehicle patents toward mitigating goals (reducing transport sector GHG emission) can't be judged using the existing data, as this indicator is related to the car manufacturers while some major manufacturing companies located in US and Japan and were outside geographical region of the study. Purpose the study aimed at discussing how the success of firms in launching innovations to the market is affected by open innovation in road transport sector. Design/methodology/approach- An explorative study related to the environmental innovations in transport sector has been conducted based on a mixed research approach, The data gathering methods is based on analysing data from OECD database, community innovation survey results (2010) derived from Eurostat database. Statistical analysis includes analysis of variances and regression analysis. Originality/value - The study allows contributing to fill the gap in literature between open innovation and environmental sustainability in European Union using the network model for identifying the main players of innovative activities, Practical implications-The results of the study shows the extent to what European firms are willing to share their innovation and how open innovation variables can affect the firm's ability in launching new innovations to the market.
A study of open innovation in facilitating environmental sustainability in road transport innovation networks
VAGNONI, Emidia;MORADI, Afsaneh
2014
Abstract
Open innovation is a new approach in innovation studies emphasize at opening the boundaries of the firm for exchanging the knowledge and R&D achievements with other enterprises, research centres and even competitors. As innovation plays a key role in achieving sustainable development goals and among them environmental sustainability, the effect of open innovation in facilitating the innovation process in transport sector will be discussed in this paper. Three indicators of open innovation have been analysed in order to identify how they can affect the number of firms which could introduce new innovations to the market in European Union countries. These indicators are: cooperation, acquisition of external resources and patents registered for electric and hybrid vehicles. The results of this study showed that while the cooperative and acquisition activities has a significant effect on the number of firms which could introduce new innovation to the market the effect of electric hybrid vehicle patents toward mitigating goals (reducing transport sector GHG emission) can't be judged using the existing data, as this indicator is related to the car manufacturers while some major manufacturing companies located in US and Japan and were outside geographical region of the study. Purpose the study aimed at discussing how the success of firms in launching innovations to the market is affected by open innovation in road transport sector. Design/methodology/approach- An explorative study related to the environmental innovations in transport sector has been conducted based on a mixed research approach, The data gathering methods is based on analysing data from OECD database, community innovation survey results (2010) derived from Eurostat database. Statistical analysis includes analysis of variances and regression analysis. Originality/value - The study allows contributing to fill the gap in literature between open innovation and environmental sustainability in European Union using the network model for identifying the main players of innovative activities, Practical implications-The results of the study shows the extent to what European firms are willing to share their innovation and how open innovation variables can affect the firm's ability in launching new innovations to the market.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
