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INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 298-320Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2016.1224707
Keywords
Wine industry; eco-innovation; environmental innovation; green innovation; drivers
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- Italian Ministry of University and Research [PON02_00186_3417392]
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The importance of eco-innovations to food manufacturing has risen exponentially in recent years. In this paper we investigate the driver of different types of eco-innovation in the Italian wine industry, particularly relevant sector both in terms of its economic performance and its use of natural resources. We focus on the internal knowledge sourcing of firms and on the 'breadth' and 'depth' of their engagement with external, agents when performing eco-innovation activity. We test our research hypotheses in the context of cleaner processes, end-of-pipe technologies and the use of organic input factors. The empirical evidence is based on a questionnaire survey administered to 334 Italian wine producers. The econometric exercise provides mixed results: both internal R&D and engagement with external agents have a significant effect on ecodnnovations depending on he type of eco-innovation taken into account. Moreover, late find a non-linear relationship between external knowledge sourcing and co-innovation activity.
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