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Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Eco-Innovation

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 15459

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Miguel-Ángel Galindo-Martín

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Department of Public Finance, Statistics and Political Economy, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ronda de Toledo, 13003 Ciudad Real, Spain
Interests: monetary policy; entrepreneurship; women´s entrepreneurship; economic growth
Prof. Dr. María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo

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University Complutense, Spain
Interests: entrepreneurship; women’s entrepreneurship; innovation; international accounting
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Prof. Dr. María-Soledad Castaño-Martinez

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University of Castilla-La Mancha
Interests: entrepreneurship, monetary policy, fiscal policy, institutions, economic growth

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Entrepreneurship has been considered as a factor that promotes economic growth, generating higher employment and social welfare. This objective is achieved because entrepreneurs look for business opportunities and introduce technologies that allow them to be competitive and satisfy consumer demands. However, it has also been pointed out that by developing this activity, significant environmental damage has been created, due to the fact that part of that economic activity and the technological progress generated has been unsustainable. Due to this problem, the idea of ​​sustainability has been introduced, which places more importance on achieving sustainable development objectives. This interest in environmental degradation has led OECD countries, and especially the European Union countries, to design a "greening of industries" or business activity strategy based on greater human well-being and social equity, in order to reduce environmental risks and ecological scarcity. Thus, this sustainable development strategy, known as "green production", promotes the efficient use of resources and energy.

Given this circumstance, the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship arises as the action of entrepreneurs aimed at maintaining the sustainability of the economy. To carry out this activity, innovations are needed, among other things. Additionally, when the innovation process is considered, the environmental question also arises, since it is necessary to introduce new technologies that are not harmful to the environment. Thus, the concept ​​of eco-innovation appears in the sense of using the least possible number of natural resources in the production process. Additionally, the entrepreneur is the manager of introducing such eco-innovation. This eco-innovation is determined by a multitude of factors, including environmental regulations and laws, culture and education in this area, public policies promoting green production, technological determinants such as the efficient use of materials and energy by companies, customer demand and existing competition, and the possibility of exploiting new markets.

This Special Issue aims to collect up-to-date research articles that explore and examine the relationship between sustainable entrepreneurship and eco-innovation and their effects economic activity in order to achieve the sustainable development objective and improve social welfare.

Prof. Dr. Miguel-Ángel Galindo-Martín
Prof. Dr. María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo
Prof. Dr. María-Soledad Castaño-Martinez
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Keywords

  • Sustainability entrepreneurship
  • Eco-innovation
  • Sustainability development
  • Social economy
  • Financial resources
  • Green innovation
  • Green growth
  • Greening of industries
  • Green production
  • Public policies
  • Environment
  • R&D
  • Human capital
  • Regional ecology
  • Regulatory framework

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Incentivizing Innovation: The Causal Role of Government Subsidies on Lithium-Ion Battery Research and Development
by Yana Buravleva, Decai Tang and Brandon J. Bethel
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8309; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158309 - 26 Jul 2021
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Governments design and implement policies to achieve a variety of goals, but perhaps none are as pressing as shifting national economies away from non-renewable fuels and towards more sustainable, environmentally-friendly technologies. To incentivize such transitions, governments provide subsidies to private and public companies [...] Read more.
Governments design and implement policies to achieve a variety of goals, but perhaps none are as pressing as shifting national economies away from non-renewable fuels and towards more sustainable, environmentally-friendly technologies. To incentivize such transitions, governments provide subsidies to private and public companies to innovate, i.e., to engage in research and development (R&D) to develop those technologies. However, the question of the companies is using government subsidies (GS) to perform R&D and its answer determines the effectiveness of government policies. Consequently, this paper seeks to answer this question through investigating Chinese lithium-ion battery (LiB) firms and the GS they receive through novel usage of information flow (IF). Hausman tests, fixed- and random-effects models confirmed a weak, though positive correlation between GS and R&D as determined by patent output (PO), but interestingly, observations of IF intimated that GS also affected other variables such as net profit (NP) and main business income (MBI). This suggests that firms are being awarded GS for higher PO, but a corresponding increase in R&D and its expected growth in company performance is not occurring. Thus, it is suggested that performance variables other than PO be used as firms may ab (use) this metric to apply for more GS, rather than performing R&D that leads to technological breakthroughs. Full article
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Entrepreneurial Competence: Using Machine Learning to Classify Entrepreneurs
by Clariandys Rivera-Kempis, Leobardo Valera and Miguel A. Sastre-Castillo
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8252; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158252 - 23 Jul 2021
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Competencies are behaviors that some people master better than others, which makes them more effective in a given situation. Considering that entrepreneurship translates into behaviors, the competency-based approach expresses attributes necessary in the generation of such behaviors with greater precision. By virtue of [...] Read more.
Competencies are behaviors that some people master better than others, which makes them more effective in a given situation. Considering that entrepreneurship translates into behaviors, the competency-based approach expresses attributes necessary in the generation of such behaviors with greater precision. By virtue of the dynamic and complicated nature of entrepreneurial phenomena and, especially, of the numerous data sets and variables that accompany the entrepreneur, it has become increasingly difficult to characterize it. In this study, we use predictive analysis from the machine learning approach (unsupervised learning) in order to determine if the individual is an entrepreneur, based on measures of 20 attributes of entrepreneurial competence relative to classification and ranking. We investigated this relationship using a sample of 6649 individuals from the Latin American context and a series of algorithms that include the following: logistic regression, principal component analysis, ranking and classification of data using the Ward method, linear discriminant analysis, and Gaussian regression among others. Full article
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Measuring Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Eco-Innovation: A Methodological Proposal for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
by Muhammad Azam Roomi, José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez and Alicia Coduras
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 4056; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074056 - 06 Apr 2021
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After the UN’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, it became clear that the relationship between sustainability and entrepreneurship was an area for re-examination. Traditional measures of entrepreneurial success rested largely on economic indicators; observatories like the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) [...] Read more.
After the UN’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, it became clear that the relationship between sustainability and entrepreneurship was an area for re-examination. Traditional measures of entrepreneurial success rested largely on economic indicators; observatories like the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) extended them, including cultural and social indicators. There is now a real need to measure and analyze the relationship between sustainable entrepreneurship and eco-innovation and drive positive economic activity outcomes, sustainable development, and social welfare. For GEM’s consideration, this paper proposes a reimagined tool by which to measure sustainable entrepreneurship and eco-innovation in businesses and assess their level of alignment with UN SDGs. Specifically, it presents a new measurement method, incorporating, but simplifying, a complex range of variables, which can be crystallized into a set of items (questions) to determine businesses’ commitment to entrepreneurship sustainability—social, economic, and environmental. The results can be cross-referenced with other relevant variables, and indicators proposed by the UN, to determine what causal or explanatory relationships might or might not exist. The proposal represents a valuable extension to existing data gathering tools, and will be of use to researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship—especially as its sustainability credentials and environmental impact are in the spotlight. Full article
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The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on New Product Creativity, Competitive Advantage and New Product Performance in SMEs: The Moderating Role of Corporate Life Cycle
by Ho-Taek Yi, Fortune Edem Amenuvor and Henry Boateng
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3586; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063586 - 23 Mar 2021
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The current study aims to empirically examine the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on new product creativity, competitive advantage, and new product performance. Data are collected from 424 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Korea. The suggested hypotheses are tested through the structural [...] Read more.
The current study aims to empirically examine the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on new product creativity, competitive advantage, and new product performance. Data are collected from 424 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in South Korea. The suggested hypotheses are tested through the structural equation modeling technique. The analysis outcome shows that entrepreneurial orientation has a significant positive effect on both new product (NP) novelty and new product meaningfulness. The study further finds that both new product novelty and meaningfulness have significant positive impacts on competitive advantage, respectively, while the latter has a significant positive effect on new product performance. Similarly, the study finds that corporate life cycle significantly moderates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and new product meaningfulness. The study offers practical and theoretical insights into understanding entrepreneurship dynamics, new product creativity, and new product performance. The research shows that SME managers must adopt an entrepreneurial orientation at an early stage in the life cycle. Full article
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