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Eco-innovations are a crucial tool for firms to redefine the environmental impacts of their productive activities toward a new paradigm of sustainable development. Even though this is an important subject, still little is known about how eco-innovations take place in firms, especially in emerging economies like Brazil. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the landscape of eco-innovations in Brazilian firms, concerning the characteristics of eco-innovators, as well as the determinants, results, types of innovation, and the existence of cooperative arrangements for the development of eco-innovations. To do so it presents the results of an unprecedented survey on eco-innovative activities in Brazilian firms carried out in 2012. The methodology is quantitative, descriptive, and explanatory, using precise measurement to provide a representative picture of eco-innovations in Brazil. The results show that firms are mostly driven by the opportunity to create new businesses with their eco-innovations. Moreover, it reveals that most eco-innovative firms in our sample conduct systematic, in-house R&D activities; most eco-innovative firms participate in cooperative arrangements for innovation especially with universities and research institutes; and most eco-innovations are organizational, with incremental impacts.
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Different names are used in literature to refer to eco-innovations: environmental innovations, green innovations, and sustainability-oriented innovations. All terms focus on methods that have a positive environmental impact.
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de Carvalho, F.P. (2014). Portraying the Eco-innovative Landscape in Brazil: Determinants, Processes, and Results. In: Azevedo, S., Brandenburg, M., Carvalho, H., Cruz-Machado, V. (eds) Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models. Greening of Industry Networks Studies, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05077-5_7
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