Innovation and sustainability: the Italian scenario (original) (raw)

Recent public and governmental concerns regarding sustainability have increased attention on the possibility of improving firms’ efficiency in terms of the emerging topic of sustainable innovation. The perspective of what represents innovation has changed significantly in the pioneering and the wide usage of patent statistics. In fact, a large number of research papers have suggested significant advancements in the usage of indicators connected to measuring innovation (see, among others, Rothwel, 1992; Hagedoorn and Cloodt, 2003; Smith, 2005; Gössling and Rutten, 2007; Makkonen and Van der Have, 2013). One of the most frequently used set of indicators to assess the innovation level of European countries is the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS; European Commission, 2020), while the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS; European Commission, 2019) represents a regional extension of the EIS. Compared to EIS, the RIS assesses the innovation performance using a limited number of indicat...

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