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Why does eco-innovation differ in service firms? Some insights from Spain
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Although environmental innovation studies have traditionally focused on manufacturing firms, the distinctive features of eco‐innovation activities carried out by service firms require special attention. Using the Spanish Commumity Innovation Survey (CIS), this paper determines which are the main drivers of undertaking eco‐innovation and investigates the similarities and differences between service and manufacturing firms within the five sub‐groups of services (supplier dominated, scale intensive physical networks, scale intensive information networks, science‐based, and others). The results confirm that the main eco‐innovation triggers are similar¿technological push factor orientation (internal R&D and persistence) and firm size¿while the impact of market pull factors and public environmental legislation differ within the services sub‐groups. In addition, we find a high degree of heterogeneity within service firms. In contrast to traditional service firms, those in the groups involving R&D activities, information networks, and scale‐intensive physical networks exhibit intensive eco‐innovation performance and show a high level of green indicators.
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JOVÉ LLOPIS, Elisenda and SEGARRA BLASCO, Agustí. Why does eco-innovation differ in service firms? Some insights from Spain. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2020. Vol. 29, num. 3, pags. 918-938. ISSN 0964-4733. [consulted: 16 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/159819