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October 30, 2024
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Innovation, environmental sustainability and economic development: DEA-Bootstrap and multilevel analysis to compare two regions

Publicated to: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE. 172 1-12 - 2021-01-01 172(), DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121040

Authors:

Bresciani, Stefano; Puertas Medina, Rosa María; Ferraris, Alberto; Santoro, Gabriele
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Valencia, Res Grp Int Econ & Dev, Camino Vera S-N - Author
Univ Rijeka, Fac Econ & Business, I Filipovica 4 - Author
Univ Torino, Dept Management, Corso Unione Soviet,218 Bis - Author
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Abstract

Innovation and environmental sustainability are key elements in countries' development and essential to ensure their continuing competitiveness in an increasingly globalised market. Similarly, at the regional level, these elements mark the difference between higher/lower growth; as such, the evaluation of innovation processes is very useful to orient innovation policies towards those regions that need additional strategies to develop potential improvements. This study proposes the use, in the first stage, of DEA-Bootstrap and the Malmquist Index to analyse the innovation efficiency level in Spanish and Italian regions during the period 2004-2012. In the second stage, multilevel regression is used to analyse the relationship between efficiency, environmental sustainability and economic development. The results show great differences between the territories of the two countries analysed, confirming the need to establish differentiated policies that encourage the adoption of innovation practices in regions whose efficiency scores have shown a lack of rigour in the use of their resources, i. e. southern Italian and Spanish regions. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the stringency of environmental policies positively affects innovation efficiency, with a positive relationship identified among development, innovation, and environmental sustainability.
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Keywords

ChinaData envelopment analysisDeaDevelopmentDevelopment efficiencyEconomic and social effectsEconomic developmentEconomicsEfficiencyEnvironmental economicsEnvironmental protectionEnvironmental sustainabilityImpactIndicatorsInnovationInnovation efficiencyKey elementsMulti-level analysisMultilevel regressionMultilevel regressionPerformanceProductivity growthRelative efficiencyResearch-and-developmentSustainabilitySustainable developmentTechnological-innovation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 1/40, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 4.07. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 4.94 (source consulted: FECYT Mar 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-03, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 73
  • Scopus: 85
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-03:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 140 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10251/184740
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Croatia; Italy; Russia.

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Puertas Medina, Rosa María.

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