TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and eco-innovation: micro-evidence from the Eurobarometer survey
AU - Ghisetti, Claudia
AU - Montresor, Sandro
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper investigates the role of design in making firms eco-innovate. Going beyond the ‘packed’ approach of environmental studies about ‘eco-design’, we maintain that the eco-innovative impact of design is correlated with the firm’s decision to invest in it. In turn, design investment is assumed connected with the use firms make of design. By pooling the Eurobarometer 2015 and 2016 surveys, we test for these arguments with respect to a sample of nearly 4500 European and non-European (US and Switzerland) manufacturing firms. Results confirm that the firms’ capacity of eco-innovating increases when they invest in design, also by making this investment dependent on the role of design within the firm. The relationship between eco-innovation and design appears robust with respect to the different kinds of ‘eco-innovators’ that the Eurobarometer enables us to consider, while some interesting variability emerges when splitting the sample by group of countries and industries.
AB - This paper investigates the role of design in making firms eco-innovate. Going beyond the ‘packed’ approach of environmental studies about ‘eco-design’, we maintain that the eco-innovative impact of design is correlated with the firm’s decision to invest in it. In turn, design investment is assumed connected with the use firms make of design. By pooling the Eurobarometer 2015 and 2016 surveys, we test for these arguments with respect to a sample of nearly 4500 European and non-European (US and Switzerland) manufacturing firms. Results confirm that the firms’ capacity of eco-innovating increases when they invest in design, also by making this investment dependent on the role of design within the firm. The relationship between eco-innovation and design appears robust with respect to the different kinds of ‘eco-innovators’ that the Eurobarometer enables us to consider, while some interesting variability emerges when splitting the sample by group of countries and industries.
KW - Business, Management and Accounting (all)
KW - Eco-design
KW - Management of Technology and Innovation
KW - design
KW - eco-innovation
KW - Business, Management and Accounting (all)
KW - Eco-design
KW - Management of Technology and Innovation
KW - design
KW - eco-innovation
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/131099
UR - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13662716.asp
U2 - 10.1080/13662716.2018.1549475
DO - 10.1080/13662716.2018.1549475
M3 - Article
SN - 1366-2716
SP - 1
EP - 34
JO - Industry and Innovation
JF - Industry and Innovation
ER -