Eco-Innovation for Sustainability: Evidence from 49 Countries in Asia and Europe

被引:40
作者
Jo, Jang-Hwan [1 ]
Roh, Tae Woo [2 ]
Kim, Seonghoon [3 ]
Youn, Yeo-Chang [4 ,5 ]
Park, Mi Sun [6 ]
Han, Ki Joo [7 ]
Jang, Eun Kyung [7 ]
机构
[1] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Forest Sci, Seoul 08826, South Korea
[2] Soonchunhyang Univ, Dept Int Trade & Commerce, Asan 336745, Chungcheongnam, South Korea
[3] Seoul Natl Univ, Grad Sch Business, Seoul 08826, South Korea
[4] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Forest Sci, Seoul 08826, South Korea
[5] Seoul Natl Univ, Res Inst Agr & Life Sci, Seoul 08826, South Korea
[6] Seoul Natl Univ, Interdisciplinary Program Global Environm Managem, Seoul 08826, South Korea
[7] EcoServ Consulting Co Ltd, Seoul 138050, South Korea
关键词
eco-innovation; sustainability; Triple-Bottom-Line; factors; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION; PRODUCT INNOVATION; GREEN INNOVATION; MANAGEMENT; IMPACT; POLICY; DETERMINANTS; TECHNOLOGY;
D O I
10.3390/su71215849
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Following the trend on focusing on a nation's economic-growth, side effects such as resource exhaustion, environmental pollution, and social injustice have begun to appear. As a solution, eco-innovation has received a great amount of attention from European countries and as a result, many efforts to analyze the development of eco-innovation quantitatively have been made. This study aims to evaluate the validity of an eco-innovation index developed to support the sustainable development goal. For this purpose, four factors of eco-innovationcapacity, supportive environment, activity, and performancewere applied to three categories of the Triple-Bottom-Line (TBL) concept in sustainability to compare the eco-innovation development level of 49 Asia-Europe Meeting countries. Factors for eco-innovation and TBL at the country level were organized in quartile and compared to see strength and weaknesses for each nation. In order to test if eco-innovation factors of a nation adequately reflect its sustainability, we used various comparisons of ANOVA. The results of this study are as follows: First, the one-way ANOVA tests present the scores for capacity, supportive environment, and performance as grouped into four quartiles in the same pattern as their economic, social, and environmental scores. The three-way ANOVA tests showed significance for the economic category. Scores for capacity, supportive environment, activity and performance were significant at a nation's economic level. Lastly, the MANOVA test revealed that TBL significantly explains four eco-innovation factors. In addition, the eco-innovation performance level of European nations and Asian nations were compared. The possibility that many nations still have room to be competitive in their eco-innovation efforts was identified. Nations with unbalanced eco-innovation growth are urged to implement new strategies to balance their growth. Therefore, this research contributes to extending research on eco-innovation.
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页码:16820 / 16835
页数:16
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