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Utilities: Innovation and Sustainability
dc.contributor.author | Loredo, Enrique | |
dc.contributor.author | Lopez-Mielgo, Nuria | |
dc.contributor.author | Pineiro-Villaverde, Gustavo | |
dc.contributor.author | García-Álvarez, María Teresa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-17T09:16:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-17T09:16:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Loredo, E., Lopez-Mielgo, N., Pineiro-Villaverde, G., & García-álvarez, M. T. (2019). Utilities: Innovation and sustainability. Sustainability (Switzerland), 11(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/SU11041085 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2071-1050 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2183/37004 | |
dc.description.abstract | [Abstract]: Pro-market reforms have disrupted the playing field and strongly affected the innovative behavior of electricity, gas and water utilities. Beyond a significant reduction in sectoral R&D investments, very little is known about how these firms accomplish their innovation strategies in this new scenario. Given this gap in the literature, the first aim of this paper is to identify the internal determinants of both the product and process innovation of utilities in a liberalized environment. Additionally, there is another external force that is also disrupting the specific landscape of utilities: the sustainability challenge. Therefore, the second aim of this paper is establishing whether sustainability-orientation is a driver of innovation in the utilities industries. The empirical study is carried out on a panel of 82 Spanish electricity, gas and water utilities over the period 2005–2012 (Technological Innovation Panel dataset (PITEC)). The main findings are: (i) the acquisition of disembodied knowledge does not play a relevant role for utilities; (ii) non-formal search processes are central to product innovation; (iii) some markets for technology –external R&D and technology embedded in equipment—are determinant factors for process innovation; (iv) sustainability orientation increases the likelihood of generating both, product and process innovations. These firm-level results are novel contributions to the field of utility management. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | Enrique Loredo and Nuria Lopez-Mielgo would like to acknowledge financial support from Cátedra Hunosa-Universidad de Oviedo. María Teresa García-Álvarez gratefully thanks the financial support provided by the Department of Culture, Education and University Management of the Autonomous Community of Galicia (Spain) through the ED341D R2016/014 Program | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | Xunta de Galicia; ED341D R2016/014 | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.3390/SU11041085 | es_ES |
dc.rights | Atribución 4.0 Internacional | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | * |
dc.subject | Utility | es_ES |
dc.subject | Electricity | es_ES |
dc.subject | Gas | es_ES |
dc.subject | Water | es_ES |
dc.subject | Liberalization | es_ES |
dc.subject | Innovation | es_ES |
dc.subject | Sustainability | es_ES |
dc.subject | PITEC | es_ES |
dc.title | Utilities: Innovation and Sustainability | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.access | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
UDC.journalTitle | Sustainability | es_ES |
UDC.volume | 11 | es_ES |
UDC.issue | 4 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/SU11041085 |
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