Research project

Environmental Innovation and The Pandemic: The Role of External Collaboration and Technological Readiness

Project overview

In this study, we design an empirically testable model to elicit the real impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental innovation in the United Kingdom. We further examine how this impact is influenced by a firm’s level of external collaboration and technological readiness. Effective external collaboration with other firms, research institutes, government entities, and the private sector has been critical for a firm’s resilience to pursue environmental innovation (Markovic et al., 2021; Chesbrough, 2020). Technological readiness reflects a firm’s preparedness to pursue and implement new environmental innovations (Zhang et al., 2020).
To achieve this goal, this study aims to answer the following research questions: (1) What is the impact of COVID-19 on a firm’s environmental innovation? (2) Whether the severity of this impact depends on the firm’s level of collaboration (level of open innovation)? (3) Whether the technological readiness significantly moderates the impact of COVID-19 on a firm’s environmental innovation? This study will empirically examine these research questions.

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Saad Baloch

Lecturer in IB and Finance

Research interests

  • International Business
  • Non-Market Strategies
  • Board Gender Diversity  
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Other researchers

Professor Tapas Mishra

Head of Department Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Long memory; Green finance and corporate culture; Mergers and Acquisition, Stochastic economic growth; Macroprudential policy and stress testing; Environmental and demographic volatility; Cryptocurrency modelling; Climate finance, Small Business Economics, and Innovation-diffusion modelling.
  • Demography-growth-environmental interdependence
  • Spatio-temporal models
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs