The effects of regional environmental EU-funded research on firm innovation: a multilevel analysis

Lorena M. D’Agostino; Rosina Moreno; Damián Tojeiro-Rivero

doi:10.1007/s10961-025-10246-2

The effects of regional environmental EU-funded research on firm innovation: a multilevel analysis

Lorena M. D’Agostino
, Rosina Moreno
, Damián Tojeiro-Rivero^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Taking the long-established evidence on knowledge spillovers that states that part of the new created knowledge spills over to other firms mostly located in the physical proximity, we aim at providing evidence on the role of green knowledge spillovers on firms’ innovation. We posit that in addition to internal factors, firm innovation is determined by external regional factors, among which we specifically focus on the spillovers generated by environmental EU-funded research at the regional level. The results indicate that the presence of partners engaged in EU-environmental projects in a region has a positive and significant effect on process innovation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1768 - 1797
Number of pages	30
Journal	Journal of Technology Transfer
Volume	51
Issue number	3
Early online date	13 Oct 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-025-10246-2
Publication status	Published - Jun 2026
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

Environment
EU-funded research
Firm
Framework Programme, region
Innovation

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